# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1858_S33
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume IV.    February 1858.    No. 1.

(Submitted by P. Kalb.)
"Luther or Arndt!"

In the 4th quarterly number of the Guerike and Rudelbach journal, a review by Ströbel of the 12th volume of the "Lutheraner" reads, after having there, from pages 724–784, treated most of that journal's essays at length and approvingly, further as follows:

"With this I believe I have set forth the 'Lutheraner' from every favorable side. It testifies powerfully, 1) against the gentlemen brothers Papa and Apap, 2) against the many-named brood of fanatics and freethinkers (Anabaptists, sacramentarians, supranaturalists and rationalists, pantheists and atheists, unionists and indifferentists), whose path leads "from progress into brutishness," against the false brethren of church- and office-mongering. Accordingly does it stand entirely on the ground of our evangelical-Lutheran forefathers? Probably not entirely. And wherein, then, does the difference lie? Whoever understands how to discern spirits will doubtless find it; indeed, to make matters plain, it is even to be met with, personified, in several places. So, among other things, right in the following sentence of the preface: "Without hesitation we join the great procession, already arrived in heaven in many thousand members, in which, with a Martin Luther at its head, a Johannes Brenz once stood, a Martin Chemnitz, a Jakob Andreä, a Johann and Paul Gerhardt, a Johann Arndt, a Heinrich Müller, and a thousand upon a thousand other faithful teachers, in part teachers of the whole of Christendom, faithful to the banner of our Church's pure confession." Similarly on p. 13. Quite palpably again on p. 32: "Johann Arndt's declaration of what the purpose of his books on true Christianity is, and how he wishes them to be understood. Thus writes the godly Arndt at the close of the second book of True Christianity: "In conclusion I must kindly remind the Christ-loving reader of a few points: that I have and seek no other end (finis), goal, and purpose in these my books than that, alongside and together with this pure religion and confession of faith as it is set forth in the churches of the Augs-

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