# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1857_S126
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126 Church-Contemporary-Historical Notices.

institutions in Gettysburg appear to meet the needs, is, allegedly, first, that in the new institute a merely rudimentary theological training is in certain cases to be given, for the reason that also such persons as have already chosen a calling but still resolve to become preachers can be admitted; and finally, that "the customary manner of study in our girls' schools, as in our colleges and theological seminaries, is thoroughly deficient and urgently requires improvement." A correspondent of the Missionary, however, shows that Gettysburg, which instead of the eighty to a hundred students it could hold has only twenty, achieves precisely what the new institute is supposed to achieve, in that two thirds of all the preachers who have gone out from Gettysburg have received only a rudimentary theological training, and that craftsmen and farmers there too are trained as preachers; and he lets it be seen that the one real reason that moves Dr. Kurtz is the wish to have an institution at which his own theology is taught. It is possible that the dogmatic textbook for the new institute, should it come into being, is meant to be Dr. Kurtz's famous work "Why are you a Lutheran." B.

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Tennessee Synod. When the Synod of Missouri etc. of the Western District held its last meeting, Herr Pastor J. R. Moser, a member of the Tennessee Synod, was also present. He called upon the aforementioned synod to set out for him its conviction respecting certain practices adopted in his synod, among other things respecting the breaking of bread customary there at the celebration of the holy Lord's Supper. Our synod complied with the dear brother's request and, at his express desire, also published the answer given. As it appears, the brethren of the Tennessee Synod have taken this amiss. From the report of their proceedings, conducted last October at Melanchthon's Church, Randolph Co., N. C., we learn that, in reply to our synod's declaration, they have expressed themselves as intending to remain with their previous mode of administering the holy Sacrament, namely, the breaking of bread. The dear brethren appeal here to 1 Corinthians 10:16 and to certain passages of the Formula of Concord. We do not intend here to take up again this point of dispute, which has already lain between the Lutheran and Reformed churches for 300 years and on which we have already expressed ourselves more fully in the past in the "Lutheraner." Yet we cannot forbear to repeat here a passage to which the brethren of the Tennessee Synod appeal, since this very passage, we think, could easily have convinced them of the opposite of what they meant to prove by it. The passage is as follows: "As St. Paul also sets before our eyes the whole action of the breaking of bread, or (seu) of distributing and receiving, 1 Corinthians 10:16." (Form. Conc. 749.) It is evident that here the breaking of bread is taken and explained as equivalent in meaning to the distributing. — We find it a pleasure, incidentally, to note in the synodical report that the synod elected Herr Pastor Lz. Weßel (Mount Solon, Va.) as delegate to the Missouri Synod of the Eastern District, and Herr P. J. R. Moser as delegate to the Synod of Missouri at large.