# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1858_S123
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Bavaria. 123

2. that the draft in question appears, in its present form, too extensive and in need of a careful revision;

3. that the high church government therefore be requested to charge the author with working out, from the work as it lies before them, an excerpt suited to school needs which unites the merits of the earlier one, making use of the rich and valuable observations offered by the reports of the diocesan synod;

4. that the high church government, after having subjected the excerpt thus produced to its examination, will promptly bring the same into use in a suitable manner;

5. that a short history of the church and of the Reformation be added as an appendix;

6. that in publishing this catechism attention be paid to the greatest possible cheapness;

7. that the high church government even now recommend the present detailed draft to the clergy and teachers for use in religious instruction, and to the people as a household book.

The resolutions concerning the core of the liturgy agree with those of the Ansbach assembly in this, that the core of the liturgy is fit to serve as the basis for a new, definitive liturgy. They differ from those, however, on two points: first, in that for the working-out of the liturgy, besides taking into account the motions laid down in the reports, a special regard was also resolved for the draft of 1852; and second, in that the liturgy thus worked out shall not first be laid before the next general synod, but shall, immediately upon its completion, be introduced generally and definitively as the territorial liturgy.

Whether the Upper Consistory will make use of this extraordinarily far-reaching, and withal so responsibility-laden, trust is, to be sure, another question.

With regard to church discipline the Bayreuth synod merely adopted the resolution of the Ansbach one.

The motion put by Count von Giech concerning a dignified clerical dress, not subject to changing fashion, for clergy when out of office, was adopted in the form that the introduction of civil dress in the sense and scope proposed was not commanded by the Royal Upper Consistory, but merely encouraged, and that any unbecoming dress of the clergy was forbidden. Equally unanimous adoption was found by the motion of the same delegate: that the Right Reverend general synod should, by whatever way seems fit to it, work toward freeing our church government from the bureaucratic fetters imposed upon it as regards the form of its decrees. Likewise the motion for the future union of the two general synods was adopted by acclamation. Similarly as in Ansbach, corresponding proposals were also made concerning the election procedure for church vestries and concerning general visitations. On the other hand, the parity of lay and clerical members found more numerous opponents than in Ansbach, and was adopted only against a minority of eighteen.

But we hasten to a close, and from the closing speeches we still give