# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1858_S250
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

250 Hanover.

have; so no craving will come upon her to turn in with us, to show us how we ought to make use of our capital. Through the Reformed movement, which was probably kindled by the Reformed unions at the church congresses, one more bulwark has been built for Hanover against the assault of the union, which still keeps making grandiose plans of conquest. May the Lord grant us the right faithfulness, and with the faithfulness also love!
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An enemy which our kingdom of Hanover's location on the sea and the nearness of the cities of Hamburg and Bremen bring upon it is as yet but little known to our Lutheran brethren in Saxony. It is the English, and especially the American, sectarian world. That Hamburg is the outwork of Anabaptism will be sufficiently well known. Oncken, the head of the Baptists, drives the business wholesale; not only is a mass of tracts sent out into the world by many colporteurs, but now an "improved" Bible translation has also come out, against which the congregations must be earnestly warned. The so-called preachers now travel through our land and, naturally, still find here and there some prey, especially in the conventicles which, though increasingly displaced among us by growing churchly simplicity and calm, still in many places reach over from the time of the first Awakening into our own time. The Baptists, encouraged by their recognition at the Evangelical Alliance in Berlin, will certainly from now on restrain their appetite for prey even less than before. — With still greater success the Episcopal Methodists work from Bremen. At their head stands Pastor Jacobi, whom in all — as I hear — four preachers assist. After they were sent over from America about eight years ago as "missionaries," from where they still receive very considerable support, it became possible for them, chiefly through the unstable condition of the Bremen church constitution, through the Dülon troubles, through the confessionlessness of the Bremen Reformed church — in which, until recently, every pastor had his own catechism — to soon gain a considerable following. The evening services, the eagerly conducted Sunday schools, the distribution of children's writings, especially of the "Kinderfreund" [Children's Friend], rendered excellent service. The Reformed opened house and heart to them, until they had to notice that the people they had stirred up were being carried off from them, though the dead could no more be awakened by the Methodists than by themselves. In Hanover the Methodists at once met with decided resistance. Yet they tried again and again to break into the congregations bordering on Bremen, until they were ordered by the police to abandon their campaigns of conquest along the way. They now give up mission work, but ply their colportage all the more abundantly; for that purpose they send around their "Evangelist," which appears every fourteen days, not only in North Germany but also to Württemberg and Switzerland. — Since they, in our congregations — revived again to some degree by the Lord's grace — their