# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1856_S245
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Call for a General Conference etc. 245

-joiced not a little in the wonderful agreement between them." (See: ibid., 1723, pp. 29, 30.) Reising's conversion, which thereupon followed, to Lutheran truth and the Lutheran Church, and how dreadfully he was afterward, for a long series of years, persecuted and tormented by the Inquisition, we have already related in the "Lutheraner," vol. 4, p. 172ff. Great as Chemnitz and his work thus appear, our admiration of it must rise still higher when we read that Chemnitz, when he had partly completed the work, wrote to his friend Matthias Ritter that it would not grieve him if the booksellers were unwilling to spend the money on it, since he would recognize in that the judgment of God that this (ten years' labor!) would bring no benefit to the Church. (See Johannis' preface to his edition of the Examen.)

(To be continued.)

Call
for a General Conference of all Lutherans who acknowledge the Augsburg Confession as the confession of their faith. *)

The undersigned, preachers of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in the United States, in the conviction that the unity and welfare of our Lutheran Zion will be powerfully advanced by a free exchange of views, among brethren united in the faith, concerning the various interests of our Church in this country, hereby extend an invitation to all members of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in the United States who acknowledge the unaltered Augsburg Confession as a faithful statement of the doctrines of the divine Word, to meet with them in a free and brotherly conference on the present condition and needs of the Church in America, in the city of — , on Wednesday, October 1 of this year.

J. Paul Kalb votes for Columbus, O.
F. Groth " " Cincinnati, O.
J. Killian " " New Market, Va.
G. Döpken " " Columbus, O.
A. Ernst " " " "
J. H. Dörmann " " " "
Th. Brohm " " Pittsburgh, Pa.
A. Saupert " " Columbus, O.
A. Weyel " " " "
A. Saxer " " " "

*) To save space, we do not reprint here the signatures already published in previous numbers, but take the liberty of referring our readers back to those. The Editors of Lehre und Wehre.