# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1856_S68
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

68             Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections, etc.

...faith is a universal gift of grace from God, offered to all people who hear God's Word — to all, in joy and sorrow, the power to overcome the world. From the feeling of divine mercy a fervent love for God may spring up and show itself in hasty action, but no assurance is thereby given that fleshly zeal, intoxication, and passion are not joined with the spiritual impulse, and the love thus arisen dies away in temptation along with the feeling; likewise knowledge, though properly forming concepts only, is indeed a source of resolutions and deeds, but for all its knowing these may remain heartless, devoid of love; faith, on the other hand — this reception of God by virtue of the Word of God — works the joyful surrender of the whole person to God, a love that is fervent and conscious, hearty and pure, chaste and inward, steadfast and active: faith, inseparably joined as it is with repentance, with the death of the old sinful and dying man, is the creation and resurrection of the new man, whose life, to be sure, remains hidden with Christ in God until the Last Day, and shall then first be made manifest with Christ in glory, but even now exists with Christ, grows in Christ, and grows up into Christ. Faith, uniting man with God in chaste, ardent love, also unites men with one another in that same holy love, and is thus the creation of the kingdom of heaven on earth, the one Holy Christian Church, which is the body of the Lord, the fullness of him who fills all in all. This faith is the object of Christian theology, the science of the Christian faith.
                              (To be continued.)

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(Submitted by A. Hoppe, Cand. rev. min.)

Dr. Seyffarth's Corrections
of Ancient, Especially Hebrew, History and Chronology,
Together with Introductory Remarks on the Relationship
of Scholarship to Holy Scripture.

As long as God's Word has appeared in the world, it has not lacked opposition, both against the written and against the preached Word of God, and its opponents have sought to substantiate this opposition chiefly by proofs drawn from natural history and from history. The opposing proofs from natural history, by which the credibility of Holy Scripture is supposed to be overthrown, do not amount to much. As an example we may mention the so-called proof drawn from the different color of human beings. Nowadays one distinguishes