# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1856_S96
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96 Miscellaneous Church News.

is, not what merely seems so to his reason. — In the same issue of the "Luth. Obs."
is found a peaceful proposal (pacific overture), signed by 41 reverends and laymen, to let
the whole dispute over the Platform rest, to return to the old doctrinal basis of the General
Synod, to confess oneself without reservation only to the Word of God as the sole infallible
rule of faith and life, and to attest only a fundamental agreement with the Augsburg
Confession, and to move the synod to which one belongs to make the same declaration.
Among the signers are found also the following: H. L. Baugher, M. Jacobs, and M. L.
Stoever of Gettysburg College; S. S. Schmucker and C. P. Krauth of Gettysburg Seminary;
further the Messrs. P. Anstadt, D. A. Buehler; Aug. H. Lochman and C. A. Morris of York,
Pa.; H. S. Miller of Lebonon, Pa.; Wm. F. Eyster and Fred. Smith of Chambersburg, Pa.;
F. R. Anspach and C. C. Baughman of Hagerstown, Md.; T. Newton Kurtz of Baltimore;
Geo. Diehl of Frederick, Md. It seems to us that even these gentlemen, although, as they
say, they include both opponents and apologists of the Platform, come "too late." Between
them and the fleshpots of the General Synod lies too great a wilderness. May they not
perish in it, but find the Canaan of the orthodox church.

"Lutherophilus." The first number of this magazine begun by Pastor Keyl in
Baltimore, "for the furtherance of a fruitful study of theology," we find reviewed in the
"Ev.-Luth. Gemeinde-Blatt," published in Jenkau, of Nov. 17th of last year, in the
following words. "Scarcely anyone in our day has studied Luther's writings more
thoroughly and comprehensively than Keyl. In the above-named work he tells us, in 6
letters, how one is to proceed in the study of Luther's writings. That such well-meant
counsel is a most welcome gift for every Lutheran theologian, I need not say; we could wish
the little book in the hands of all students of theology, and especially of all Lutheran
pastors who still live with Luther, the father of our church, and learn from him." — May this
encouraging testimony from the old fatherland encourage the writer of "Lutherophilus" to
continue writing, and encourage us readers to reread it and to read further numbers.

Errata of the previous number.

Page 33, line 2 from the bottom, read instead of: C. Kurtz — B. Kurtz.
" 37, " 17, " " insert after the word "Unräumlichkeit" [spacelessness] the following sentence:
the abstraction from magnitude, weight, extension — in short, from every
" 37, " 16, " " read instead of: heavenly — sensible.

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