# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1902_S11
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1902. 11

[sent his] Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world through him might be saved," and: "For judgment I am come into this world"; — "Preach the gospel to every creature," and: "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine"; — "When ye pray, use not vain repetitions," and: "Pray without ceasing"; — "I am the true God," and: "I cannot do anything till thou be come thither (to Zoar)"; — "He is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world," and: "I pray not for the world"; — "God rested on the seventh day," and: "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work"; — "It is appointed unto men once to die," and: "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die"; — "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" and: "I am not alone, because the Father is with me"; — "I have no pleasure in the death of the sinner," and: "There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it"; — "Even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time," and: "Be not soon shaken in mind, ... as that the day of Christ is at hand"; — "Of his kingdom there shall be no end," and: "He shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father"; — the word of Christ, "This is my body," with the other: "He sitteth on the right hand of God," or with: "The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands," or with: "If any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not."

Historical questions, in the sense and of the kind that one meets nowadays in books of this sort, one finds few in Althamer, yet they are not wholly lacking. He asks, for example: How does it agree that Jesus baptized, and: "He baptized not"; — "See thou tell no man," and: "Tell how great things the LORD hath done for thee"; — "Whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also," and: "If I have spoken well, why smitest thou me?" — "I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine," and: "Who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead"; — that he says to Magdalene, "Touch me not," with: "The women held him by the feet."

This is only a small selection from the twice 200 passages that he sets over against one another, and he always shows in an excellent way how beautifully these passages agree and how there is no contradiction at all. A fresh, cheerful, Lutheran spirit blows through the whole book, and an open, unprejudiced outlook. The analogy of faith is never violated by his reconciliation, even where one cannot quite follow it. Everyone who hears this selection of passages and himself reads Holy Scripture too must say to himself: Yes, those are such points; thoughts about them have come to me too in reading the Bible, and I should gladly have known how they could be reconciled. If nowadays