# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1882_S74
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of this matter in all of them. The expressions are in one respect thus, in another thus. But I have found only this doctrine, whatever I have read. — Now Dr. Walther says that I complained that he went at me terribly. If I did that, I do not know it at all. I am not aware of it at all. And if Dr. Walther were to go at my flesh terribly, I should be grateful."

The chairman interjected here the remark: "All such interpolations do not belong to the matter. The matter before us is the proposal of the committee report, and about this you have objections to make. One should now also stick to that, and not keep coming back to things that have no bearing at all on this subject."

Pastor Muus thereupon complained of a restriction of freedom of speech. He had brought forward what belonged to the matter. After the chairman had reminded him that in the course of the proceedings of the Synodical Conference Pastor Muus had already supplied a goodly register of insulting expressions and had often clothed his replies in unsuitable, provoking words,

Pastor Muus continues: "Dr. Walther asks how I can put the Confession on a level with the dogmaticians. But I do not know whether I have put them on a level with the Confession by my question. But I do not wish to speak of that at all. But it is remarkable, Mr. Chairman: a whole series of dogmaticians who are everywhere recognized as great lights hold the same doctrine, and indeed in agreement with the Book of Concord. I know of none who does not say that he teaches the same as the Book of Concord. They have this explanation of the 'intuitu fidei.' And that is not in the doctrine of the Sabbath or of the civil authority, about which, to my knowledge, there was not much dispute; but in a doctrine in which they were always at strife, to the death, with the Calvinists. And in this doctrine, about which the dispute was precisely, we have, in spite of the many different phrases and words they used, in all of them this: that the decisive point between them and the Calvinists is this 'intuitu fidei.' This agreement of the greatest teachers seems to me to be of great significance. For naturally all the lesser teachers went to school under the greater. And what the greater taught (one must assume) was the usual doctrine. Whatever else was taught was an exception. And they all said that the Book of Concord confesses the same doctrine as they. I understand the Book of Concord to mean that it has this doctrine of the 'intuitu fidei.' — When Dr. Walther said that it should be so terrible that I said: Scripture names the works as a ground why God appointed some to heaven and set others aside, I have after all named a passage of Scripture, Matt. 25, where Scripture adduces the works as a cause why God [appoints] some to heaven and some