# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1857_S260
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260 Real-Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church.

Saint-Simonians, and — more brazen still than these — just now as Young Germany."

From these few examples, which could be reinforced by a hundred others, the reader will already perceive how matters stand with the "well-tested" doctrines in this book intended for the learned and the unlearned. The style of writing is for the most part Hegelian-confused and obscure.

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II.

Since it is notorious that many young theologians have procured this work and use it unsuspectingly, and since a beginning has already been made of securing for it, by translation into the English language, an ever wider circulation, even here in the New World, it is indeed doubly timely — and altogether the duty of every Christian acquainted with the book — to call attention to the lamentable contradiction in which this work stands to the expectations that its printed prospectus is bound to awaken in the hearts of the inexperienced. For there it is said that "as the foundation on which the whole rests, faith in the revelation of salvation in Christianity is to be held fast," and the hope is expressed "that the work may become a rallying point of lively activity for all those theologians who, by thorough scientific training, by faithful adherence to the saving facts and doctrines of the faith of Christianity, as well as by living sympathy for the weal and woe of the church, are called to further the work of the Spirit among us." Who would not expect from this to receive a book which every simple, Bible-believing Christian could use without danger to his soul? But alas, the most distressing facts teach something quite different and show irrefutably that the work is not only a living expression of the Babylonian confusion of speech, opinion, and faith of our days, but that under the good firm-name of faith in revelation it introduces the very poison of the vulgarest rationalism, and thus is for posterity no monument of German diligence, German learning, German theology, and of the reawakened faith, but a monument of the disgrace and shame of modern Protestantism. To substantiate this seemingly harsh but just verdict, and so to forewarn the unsuspecting, let only a few of the countless examples that could be adduced for that purpose follow here:

We open the article on the Holy Supper, written by Dr. and Prof. Julius Müller of Halle, a hero of the Prussian Union and a celebrated coryphaeus of the modern-believing so-called theology. That we there find a doctrine of the Lord's Supper which is essentially nothing other than the Calvinist one, only enlarged with a few new variations, can of course cause no surprise, since Müller has already elsewhere set forth his doctrine of the