# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1858_S117
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Bavaria. 117

's name is reviled. — And then not only can the church, but it should also, remove such a one from office. For just as God calls, so He also removes through means; but just as the call takes place according to the instruction of the Lord of the harvest, so too the congregation, when someone is to be removed from office, must be able to prove with certainty that this is the judgment, and that this is the will of God."

Kromayer (Th. pos. P. II, p. 530): "The preaching office cannot be conferred by the one who calls in the manner of a contract for a certain number of years, or with the reservation of the freedom to dismiss again the one freely called; because the power to make such a contract is nowhere granted or permitted to the one who calls, by God; therefore neither the one who calls nor the one to be called may regard such a calling and dismissal as divine."

(Conclusion follows.)

Bayern.

Already in the January number we communicated, under the heading "Church and Contemporary History," the most important results of the general synod held at Ansbach. We are able, alas, only in this number, on account of the prolonged absence of our German papers, to supply some important additional items and the report on the general synod later held at Bayreuth as well. Our source this time is the Ev. Kirchen-Zeitung. In it we find, among other things, the following:

But even the slightest doubt that might still linger over the stance of the general synod and its position toward the church government must vanish when we consider the acts with which the assembly at Ansbach concluded its work. These are the synod's address of thanks to His Majesty the King, the closing words of the presiding officer, and the farewell words of a synod member to the Royal Commissioner and to the presiding officer.

As for the address of thanks to the King, the synod this time considered a departure from the otherwise usual form to be called for by the circumstances. For whereas otherwise in the address the ecclesiastical high authority was not specially mentioned, or only in passing, this time it was found necessary, alongside the thanks and the blessings which the assembly with willing heart bore witness to toward the benevolent patron of the church, to express also their particular thanks for the church government bestowed upon us by the King, and their fullest confidence in it. The portion of the address of thanks that deals with this reads as follows: "Separated though we were from the general synod at Bayreuth, we could accomplish the common work only by half, but nevertheless hope that the unanimous and