# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1857_S112
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

112 The General Synod of the Lutheran church in Prussia for the year 1856.

to abolish it.) Such precepts are contrary to the pure Evangelical Lutheran doctrine; they are also not justified by any right of necessity of the church. (Needs no further comment.) The cited decrees of the royal Superior Consistory are, in their incalculable scope, encroachments of the spiritual power, which endanger the first and holiest rights guaranteed to us in state and church. (Here too every remark on this is likewise superfluous; so let the conclusion of the address now follow without anything further.) — We therefore protest in the most decided manner against these measures of the royal Protestant Superior Consistory, and deeply lament that peace and unity in the congregation are destroyed, and that confidence in the clergy is shaken. The provisions of the Bavarian magna charta, as wise as they are magnanimous, nevertheless permit that the members of a church fellowship who are burdened by acts of the spiritual power against the established order have the right to appeal, against this, to the royal territorial protection. In view of this legal provision we approach, in most humble reverence, the most exalted throne of Your Majesty, and beseech our most gracious King and Lord for most gracious protection. Your Majesty's exalted royal heart embraces all Bavarians with equal grace and love! In boundless trust in these most exalted paternal sentiments, which fill the loyal heart of every Bavarian with joy and pride, we present the most humble petition: may Your Majesty most graciously deign to ordain that, above all for the calming of the agitated minds, the execution of the most recent ordinances of the royal Protestant Superior Consistory be stayed, and that, for the protection of our threatened constitutional and church rights, the church ordinances issued since the introduction of the church councils concerning the liturgy, the core of the agenda, the order of the confessional, the restoration of church discipline, the safeguarding of the ministerial office against unseemly demands, and finally the personal registration at the proclamation of banns — insofar as they have become known or have not yet become known — be repealed. We remain in all submission, etc.

That is the address of the Nuremberg "Protestants." A lawyer is said to have drawn it up; were I king, I would set him the task of going once more to the university and reviewing his Protestant church law.

(To be continued.)

(From the "Freimund.")

The General Synod of the Lutheran church in Prussia for the year 1856. *)

.. All pastors have a right to appear at the synod. But would they all indeed have the necessary money for so long a journey and for so

*) In order, of necessity, to save space, we give from this report received by the "Freimund" only an aphoristic excerpt. L. u. W.