# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1858_S208
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208 Lutheran-Theological Pastors' Library.

...agenda taken into use*), still possess a number of older Lutheran
agendas (respectively, older church orders, which commonly include the
agenda as well), in which the various tendencies then current regarding
liturgical taste are represented.**) Since, however, writings of this
kind are rarer to obtain for purchase and mostly high in price, a
pastor will have to content himself with the liturgical writings of
Luther contained in his works, and with the more easily obtainable old
Saxon Church Order of 1580, which is usually (together with the
Dresden standard folio edition of the Book of Concord from that same
year) not so rare. The title of this church order is: "des
Durchlauchtigsten ꝛc. Herrn Augusten, Herzogen zu Sach-
sen, des heiligen römischen Reiches Erzmarschall und
Churfürsten Ordnung, wie es in seiner Churfürstlichen
Gnaden Landen bei den Kirchen mit der Lehr und Cere-
monien, desgleichen in derselben beiden Universitäten,
Consistorien, Fürsten⸗ und Particular⸗Schulen, Visi-
tation, Synodis, und was solchem allen mehr anhanget,
gehalten werden soll. Leipzig, 1580." fol. All the older Lutheran
agendas (respectively, church orders) are found listed, with a brief
statement of their contents, in the following excellent little work:
"Bibliotheca Symbolica Evangelica Lutherana, quam descripsit Jac. Wilh.
Feuerlinus. Accedunt appendices duae, quarum I. Ordinationes et Agenda
ecclesiarum nostrarum, II. Catechismos nostrarum complectitur.
Gottingae, 1752." 8vo. Here, among other things, as an appendix to a
symbolic library, first of all every Lutheran agenda and church order
that appeared from the year 1520 to 1750 (135 in number) is reviewed,
as well as those writings which contain only certain individual
sections belonging to the agendas and church orders (35 in number).
There follows, secondly, an index of the

*) One that corresponds thoroughly, in our modest judgment, to the
local need is the one published by our synod under the following
title: "Kirchen⸗Agende für Evangelisch⸗Lutherische Gemeinden ungeänd.
Augsb. Conf. Zusammengestellt aus den alten Sächsischen Kirchen Agenden
und herausgegeben von der allgemeinen Evangelisch⸗Lutherischen Synode
von Missouri ꝛc. St. Louis, Mo., 1856." This agenda has four parts; in
the first are found the forms for the ministerial acts (infant baptism,
ratification of emergency baptism, baptism of adults, confirmation,
marriage, communion of the sick); in the second part, the order of the
services together with the forms needed for them (chief service,
afternoon service and midweek service with sermon, catechism
examination, devotional hour, confessional service, early communion,
burial, day of repentance); the third contains the antiphons and
collects; the fourth, the church prayers. In an appendix are also a
form for the rite of ordination and the notes for singing the
communion liturgy, with the preface, the antiphons, the collects, and
the blessing appended. The price of this agenda is

**) It is well known that the churches in the southwest of Germany (as
neighbors of the Reformed) have had, from the beginning, a far less
pronounced liturgy than almost all other Lutheran congregations.