# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1857_S362
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362   Dr. Martin Luther's Instruction in the Right Study of Theology.

searches. Whoever now hurries with eager curiosity and astonishment over the pages, which bring forward one remarkable subject after another, perhaps scarcely thinks that as a rule the sweeter the fruit, the more sour was the labor. Certainly the public in general is doubly indebted to the esteemed author, in that he has not only brought the ore to light with great exertion in his several larger works, but has also in these smaller ones already smelted it for immediate use and enjoyment. He deserves in particular the thanks of the American public, in that he has enriched American literature — so poor in the like thorough and detailed researches that his works perhaps stand alone of their kind — with the writings in question, and has thereby perhaps given a pointer and an impulse to new literary activity. And even should Professor Seyffarth's disclosures and results not all, or not in all points, be correct — which the reviewer at present as little ventures to assert as to deny, and leaves to more competent persons to judge — still in any case much material for the settlement of the questions in suspense has been brought to light by the esteemed author, and at the same time important hints for its use have been given, so that without doubt a true service has been rendered to scholarship, and one may hope that the wish expressed in the preface by the dear author, who places scholarship in the service of faith and of the church — "that the LORD may let these pages serve for the welfare of His church" — will not remain unfulfilled.

May, then, this transplanting of German scholarship to American soil awaken and strengthen in many in this land the sense for scholarship, and may there be found here at least a few who, in whatever field it may be, will emulate the worthy author in his untiring diligence, which sets the honor of God as its final goal. B.

Dr. Martin Luther's
Instruction in the Right Study of Theology.
Recorded from his own oral utterances
by
Dr. Hieronymus Weller.

Translated from the Latin and dedicated to the German students of theology in America
by
Georg Schick,
Conrector at Concordia College.
St. Louis, Mo., at Aug. Wiebusch & Son. 1857.

At no time, so long as there has been a Christendom, has God given the church so many highly gifted teachers — apart from the apostolic age — as at the time of the