# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1856_S190
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Miscellaneous Church News. 190

...has Professor Dr. Hofmann, in the third issue of this year's "Zeitschrift für Protestantismus und Kirche," attempted to justify himself — though in such a way that he himself confesses to "doubting" "whether he will thereby succeed in making himself understood even by those who do not know how to distinguish between faith and theory." He writes further: "I am well aware that there are many, not only in the Roman but also in our own Church, who understand by 'churchly interpretation of Scripture' not the interpretation of the whole in the power of the Church's faith, but the repetition (?) of a customary interpretation of particulars. But to be burdensome and vexatious to them I count a merit."

Kahnis. In the "Pilger aus Sachsen" of January 12 the following submission is found: "Urgent Request. Professor Dr. Kahnis has received a very honorable call to Erlangen. All now, to whom our dear Lutheran territorial church lies close at heart, are most urgently exhorted to pray, in the name of Jesus: 1. that our most reverend church government may succeed in retaining the dear man for our territorial church; 2. that the Lord may so incline his heart that he too may allow himself to be retained; and 3. that He may make us heartily thankful if, without any merit or worthiness of our own, this blessed witness of the truth remains also in future the ornament of our university."

Dr. Petri has laid down the editorship of his "Zeitblatt," and Pastor Münkel of Oiste has taken his place.

Pastor Diedrich in Zabel has likewise given up the editorship of the "Lutheran Village Church Gazette," and the Reverend Pastor Räthjen of Neu-Ruppin has taken it over.

The German Evangelical Kirchentag. Concerning this association, founded in 1848 by the Prussian Privy Councillor of State Dr. v. Bethmann-Hollweg and the Upper Consistorial Councillor Dr. Stahl for a confederation of the various Protestant church bodies, it is written disapprovingly in Gelzer's Monatsblätter (Nov. '54) that it seldom comes, at its meetings, to any real discussion, but at most to a few pious expressions of feeling and opinion; likewise in the Allgemeine Kirchenzeitung, No. 107, Dr. Palmer writes that "the danger does not seem far off that the Kirchentag may lose its German character and become a specifically Prussian one, which would truly be no progress." (Matthes: Kirchliche Chronik for the year 1855.)
Election of Pastors by the Congregations. From Arolsen (Waldeck) it is written that there the election of their pastors, granted to the congregations of the principality in 1818, has, on account of the abuses that emerged in connection with it, been abolished, and the former arrangement restored; a churchly congregational order is, however, promised, which again holds out the prospect of the congregations having a share in it.

Paris. The Lutheran Church in Paris now has five pastors with three assistants, namely: Cuvier, Meyer, Valette, Berger (who has come in Berny's place), and Hosemann (since January 3 of last year). They all enjoy the reputation of orthodoxy.

Refusal of Christian Burial. In Mecklenburg-Schwerin, last year, at the burial of an old, longtime unbelieving despiser of the sacraments — an advocate in Teterow — an example was at last once again made: the church authorities were willing to grant the body a place in the churchyard only off to the side, among the graves of suicides, whereupon it was taken to Rostock and buried there in a garden.

The Oppressed Lutheran Church in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
Although the Lutheran confession is expressly recognized, at least, as a constituent part of the Evangelical territorial church, and although, just as expressly, three divisions in general (a Lutheran, a Reformed, and a United) are distinguished within it, yet in reality no distinction is made at all; the Lutheran confession is given its due in no way whatsoever, but the Hessian territorial church is treated — which it is not — as factually a United one. Testimony to this is given by nothing less than the recommended and generally introduced (United) Badish Catechism, and testimony also by the supreme church government, composed entirely of United members; indeed, loud testimony even from the