# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1857_S101
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The uproar over the most recent Superior Consistory generalia in Bavaria. 101

of the deanery, however, where the shortness of time allows, to lay the matter at once before the Consistory for decision, etc. —

These are the most recent generalia of our Bavarian Superior Consistory, over which so great an uproar has arisen everywhere. I would gladly have had them printed in full, had I not lacked the space for it; nevertheless the core and the main point of each has been faithfully given here, so that everyone can well recognize their sense and meaning. And I am convinced that all the regular readers of my paper will rejoice from the heart over their content as much as over the faithful earnestness, the genuinely evangelical spirit, and especially the mild disposition that expresses itself throughout them. So that no one may overlook this last point, I have had the passages set in spaced type from which that mild spirit especially shines forth (for in the generalia themselves nothing is underlined). No doubt many a one who heard the outcry and the slanders about them, but did not learn the content of the generalia in question more closely, believed in wonder what dreadful things must be in them, and will now marvel all the more at how such an uproar could be raised over them. But perhaps it went with him, as it did with me, that it did not surprise him in the least, for I know, alas, and have already often said publicly and specifically: with the generation of this age it stands, in general, thus, that it hates discipline, and that its disposition is: we will be an undisciplined mob. This has now become manifest on this occasion before all who still have eyes to see.

The Superior Consistory generalia contain nothing that was not already discussed at the previous General Synod and moved by it, of which everyone could also have had knowledge, because the General Synod made no secret of its proceedings and resolutions; on the contrary, they received, in the "Evangelical Lutheran Church Gazette" then existing, edited by Dr. Wiener, a thorough publication. But which of the people who now suddenly step forward as mighty "Protestants" and zealots for the "evangelical Lutheran church" concerned themselves at that time with these matters? They wished neither to hear of it, nor to read of it, nor to speak of it. Therefore it came upon them like a bolt from a clear sky, when a Hamburg newspaper writer lit a light for them on the danger in which they were hovering and from whence such danger threatened them. A noble organ, well known from 1848 to '49, the "Fränkische Curier" from Nuremberg, sounded the first alarm, and — the whole "pious" city of Nuremberg rose up in heat and fervor and so kindled with Protestant zeal that all the beer-houses hummed and rumbled with it, resounded and babbled, and the innkeepers could scarcely haul in enough beer to ward off the fire even somewhat. But that could not prevent the sparks from spraying far and wide and catching even our good, otherwise so "tedious" city of Augsburg, indeed even many minds in Munich, the seat of the royal