# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1856_S92
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92 The Broken Platform.

The January number contains, besides the preface, also a translation of Luther's „Reason and Cause from Scripture, that a Christian Assembly or Congregation has the Right and Power to Judge Doctrine and to Call, Install, and Depose Teachers.“ Then the proceedings of a meeting held at Koskonung in October of last year, in preparation for the next annual meeting, from which we single out the resolutions to publish the paper in question, to begin instruction in the seminary, and to promote most vigorously a reprint of a Norwegian translation of Luther's House Postil in this country. The close is made by the rejection of an attack in a Norwegian paper, „Emigranten,“ whose editor, though he spews venom and gall against Mr. P. Rasmussen and his brethren in the faith, can at least do no harm through his learning, since among other things he once replied to P. Rasmussen's objection — that the words „the true Christian faith“ in the Athanasian Creed had been changed to „the universal faith“ — by asking how Athanasius could have written the word „Christian,“ since Christ had not yet even been born.

The paper appears under the title „Kirkelig Tidende“ and is printed in St. Louis. The annual subscription price is $1, and letters are to be addressed: P. A. Rasmussen, Lisbon P.O., Kendall Co., Illinois.

We wish this undertaking of a faithful and diligent servant of the Lord a blessed progress as well.

(Submitted.)
The Broken Platform.

The small work published under the above title in Philadelphia (by Lindsay & Blakiston) at the beginning of this year owes its origin chiefly to the Definite Platform, already known to the readers of „Der Lutheraner“ and „Lehre und Wehre.“ Its author is Mr. John N. Hoffmann, pastor of the Lutheran Trinity Church at Reading, Pennsylvania. One gathers from the work that its author has already been in office for about twenty-five years, and that he attached himself, some time ago, to the General Synod in the hope of being able, in fellowship with the like-minded, to work most effectively for the union of extremes and for the founding of the whole Lutheran Church of this country upon the Symbols. The undertaking of those within the General Synod from whom the Definite Platform proceeded has filled him with indignation, and he gives vent to his thoughts and feelings in the present little work. The title, „The Bankrupt Platform,“ and the motto, „O Teucri, ne credite equo,“ proclaim