# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1858_S210
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210 Lutheran-Theological Pastors' Library.

The first part treats of the churchly customs: 1. with regard to
marriage and baptism (vitae ingressus); 2. with regard to confirmation,
confession, absolution, church discipline, and the service with
communion, as well as with regard to home and sick communion (vitae
progressus); 3. with regard to death and burial (vitae egressus). The
second part treats of the church customs: 1. with regard to the holy
places, their furnishing and appurtenances; 2. with regard to the holy
seasons; 3. the spiritual persons; 4. the gestures; and 5. church song.
All this, however, is only the quite general heading of the various
sections, in which everything connected with it is set forth down to
the most minute detail as to its meaning, its origin, and its
development up to the form it has or had in our church, is rescued
from misinterpretation, and is defended against its adversaries. It is
a truly admirable work, of which we would only take exception to this:
that it also treats, at rather considerable length, the related pagan
ceremonies — though of course without, as certain scholars have
unfortunately not been ashamed to do, deriving the churchly customs
from them. When Dr. Philipp Müller, professor at Jena, in the preface
he prefixed to our "Rituale," expresses the wish that the work should
appear as soon as possible in the German language and thus be made
accessible to all members of the church, we must lament that this has
not come to pass. It comprises, counting the preface and index, 1786
pages in quarto.

Good musical aids for the liturgical acts have been sorely lacking in
recent times, partly because the old agendas, in which the notation
for the liturgical pieces to be sung is also found, are becoming ever
rarer, partly because the notational form used in them is
unintelligible to most people. Since the year 1851, however, this need
too has been met by the following work: "Liturgie lutherischer
Gemeindegottesdienste, herausgegeben von Friedrich Hammel, Nördlingen
bei Beck. 1851." (agenda format). This musical liturgy, expressly
dedicated "to the elders and congregations of the Church of God in
North America," contains, after an instructive introduction, the
notation for pastor and congregation (respectively, head of household
and family) for the following acts: 1. The chief service with
communion (including the great Gloria in excelsis or "Et in terra,"
the epistle and the gospel, the Credo or the Roman confession of
faith, "Schaffe in mir," the Sanctus, the Agnus Dei, "Jesaja, dem
Propheten," and the Nunc dimittis); 2. The forenoon service on Sundays
and festival days without the Holy Supper (including the litany);
3. Morning and evening services (including eight melodies for the
chanting of psalms, the Te Deum, the Apostles' Creed, the Magnificat,
and "Verleih uns Frieden"); 4. The burial service (including the "Si
bona suscepimus" and the "Ecce quomodo"); appended afterward come also
the "Veni sancte Spiritus" and rules for the rendering of the
liturgical