# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1857_S315 # AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration) Church and Contemporary History. 315 ...paper will remain the same as was given to it at its founding and has been preserved by the two previous editorships. It desires to serve our territorial church. But precisely in order to be able to serve, not merely one part of it, but the whole territorial church as its organ, it is alone entitled and likewise enabled thereto by this, that her confessional foundation is also its foundation, on which it stands and remains. On this there is room enough for freedom of movement and of discussion. It is a great blessing for a territorial church when the right of its confession is unbroken. This blessing we may enjoy. But it is not enough that the confession stands in law; it wills to be fact, wills to be reality. How much is still lacking in this among us is manifest. Out of this grow for our church the tasks she has to solve. This is certain: churchliness, conformity to the confession, cannot be outwardly commanded nor put on like a garment without danger of untruth. And what would the former avail if its content were lacking, namely Christianity? But it must come to be, the latter in and with the former. To recall that the life of our church should shape itself ever more churchly, to serve this task for its part — that is the calling of this paper." Gießen. Here, as we read in the Saxon K. und Sch. Blatt, a young lecturer Zöckler has lately qualified as a university teacher, "of whom it may well be hoped that the confession of the church will find a representative in him." Survey of the theologians who studied at the German universities in the winter semester 1856–57: Catholics Protestants University Domestic Foreign Total Domestic Foreign Total Berlin — — — 241 51 292 Bonn 207 4 211 55 6 61 Breslau 194 2 196 67 — 67 Erlangen — — — 151 102 253 Freiburg 136 28 164 — — — Gießen —* — — 48 — 48 Göttingen — — — 82 40 122 Greifswald — — — 35 — 35 Halle — — — 389 56 445 Heidelberg — — — 47 40 87 Jena — — — 53 37 90 Kiel — — — 30 2 32 Königsberg — — — 93 — 93 Leipzig — — — 128 65 193 Marburg — — — 63 8 71 München 168 15 183 — — — Münster 222 21 243 — — — Rostock — — — 26 2 28 Tübingen 72 46 118 97 49 146 Würzburg 100 12 112 — — — ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— 1099 128 1227 1605 458 2063 in 7 faculties. in 16 faculties. Baden. The "Freimund" reports in its number of June 18: "For some months past a Lutheran movement has been going on in a region hitherto quite unknown and closed * The Catholic faculty at Gießen has, as is well known, been laid fallow by the episcopal institute of studies at Mainz; the two theologians still lecturing, Schmid and Lutterbeck, two very worthy and learned men, have entered the philosophical faculty, the former as a philosopher, the latter as a philologist.