# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1858_S322
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322 Ströbel and "Lehre und Wehre."

-eran bunglers should be able to get along even in America, the new journal, to the best of its powers, seeks to prevent; it knows more about the Reformers than merely that they ate bread and drank Torgau beer, and therefore demands of its friends a more thoroughgoing knowledge as well. What Prof. Walther, in the treatise running through all three volumes and not yet concluded, "The Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library," sets up as the requirements for the theological knowledge of a Lutheran pastor in America, we would do well to take ad notam betimes, unless we wish, for all our "scholarship," sooner or later to be found out as ignoramuses. Would it not be possible, then, to make this treatise — which bears witness to solid learning and sound judgment — somehow accessible to the Lutheran theologians of Germany? It could be of great benefit to them, or at least serve as a salutary embarrassment. It would likewise be desirable that Aug. Crämer's "Specimen and Prospectus for the Publication of a Genuinely Evangelical Exposition of the Sunday and Festival Gospels of the Church Year, Translated and Extracted from the Gospel Harmony of the Lutheran theologians M. Chemnitz, Polycarp Leyser, and Joh. Gerhard, Issued by the Monthly Preachers' Conference at Fort Wayne," should become known among us, and that this work — which comes out in periodic numbers of 32 octavo pages at cost price — should likewise be given attention by the German pastors. (Cf. Lehre und Wehre, March 1855.) The same holds of the content of the essays: "On the Composing of Sermons" (June 1855) — "Sermon Outlines," by Th. Brohm (July 1855) — "Sermon Preparation out of Dr. Luther," by Pastor Hoyer (July, August 1856) — "Instruction for Catechism Sermons," by Pastor Keyl (March 1857), and above all of Prof. Dr. Sihler's answer to the question: "How are truly Lutheran congregations founded and raised?" (June, November 1855, November 1856, February 1857), where in the 4th article, "The Government," Apap's [i.e., "Papa" reversed] nature and rule are portrayed so clearly, truly, and thoroughly as, owing to the conditions of the press, is not at all possible in Germany. — Besides this there is found, in its particulars, still much that is excellent, which the journal accomplishes as "Doctrine." As "Defense" it withstands manfully the crafty and violent assaults of the Pope, of Calvin, of the Union, of "Platform," of "Scholarship," of Friends-of-Light-ism, and of other enthusiastic swindles. In this regard the following are to be named as more or less significant: "The Newest Papist Council and the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary," by Walther (very good); "Lutheran Polemics against Rome"; "Professor Dr. Hengstenberg's Judgment on the State of the Union"; "19 Theses on the Doctrine of Eternal Predestination and the Gracious Election unto Everlasting Life," and "5 Theses on the Final Rejection of the Ungodly" (both pieces by Sihler); "The Union" (good); "The Newest Roman Dogma"; "The So-Called American Revision of the Augsburg Confession," by Hoyer; "The Lutheran Distri-