# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1856_S247
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The Lutheran Village Church Gazette etc. — A Reply Letter from the etc.                                                            247

...which have been proposed would relieve much of the anxiety, would make it possible for them to attend the sessions with comfort, and would perhaps spare the members of the Conference no small embarrassment. I consider it important that so practical a matter as this should not be overlooked, and I am convinced that this is a proposal which, however trivial it may appear, is nevertheless of importance in forestalling unpleasant feelings.

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(Submitted.)
The Lutheran Village Church Gazette

carries in its April number, under "Contemporary Notes," the following fabulous report from the church in America: "Dr. Hunger has been driven from office by his congregation because he placed two manifest and impenitent sinners under the ban. Thereupon (as we hear) a preacher of the Missouri Synod came and stirred up the congregation against him by the pretense that the ban was invalid, because not every member of the congregation had cast his vote."

The undersigned, whom this matter concerns, confines himself for the present to declaring it, in all its parts, a wholly wretched piece of lying fabrication; but should he be contradicted from a certain quarter, he will not delay in furnishing a detailed report on the matter. If the editor of the Dorfkirchenzeitung, Herr P. Räthjen, has no better American informant than the one who tells him such little tales, he had better leave the column "Contemporary Notes" unfilled.

Cincinnati, July 10, 1856.

Th. Wichmann, Lutheran pastor.

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(From the "Kirchenblatt für die ev.-luth. Gemeinde in Preußen.")
A Reply Letter from the Editor to a
dear Friend, concerning the Doctrine of the Church. *)

Allow me, dear friend, to answer here publicly a letter which you addressed to me concerning what I wrote about the church in No. 3. What moves me to do so is the suspicion that not only you, but other dear friends as well, do not agree with the views I expressed there — I who wish no less heartily than you that we Lutheran Christians might, through God's grace, arrive at one mind and judgment also in the doctrine of the church.

*) Many of our readers will surely be glad to learn from this essay that the dear Pastor Ehlers, who has served the Prussian Lutheran church so long and so fruitfully, stands with us here in cordial unity of faith also with respect to the doctrine of the church. — The Editor of Lehre und Wehre.