# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1858_S340
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340 From the General Synod.

(Contributed.)
From the General Synod.

As a result of the communication under this heading in the September number, pages 271–281, the following essay in the English language has reached us from Dr. Reynolds, with the request that it be printed in this journal. We give it here in accurate translation, as follows:

"The 'Evangelical Review' and the General Synod."

"The article by Pastor Schick in the September number of 'Lehre und Wehre' calls for a few words of explanation on my part. His curious mistake, in ascribing to me the essay of my esteemed colleague (who has made no secret of his relation to the article, p. 13 of the same number), is sufficient proof that he lacks that thorough acquaintance with the subject which is indispensable for anyone wishing to pronounce a decisive judgment in the matter. It is almost superfluous for me to say that I have had nothing whatever to do with the composition of the article in question, and am no further responsible for it than lies in my identification with the Review and in my approval of the principles on which it is edited. It is part of the original plan with which the Review was begun, to permit the free discussion of all matters of interest in the Lutheran Church of this country, and this right we grant without hesitation to the editors as well as to all other writers. It was my conviction, when I projected the Review (and the experience of ten years has confirmed the correctness of that conviction), that the interests of truth and of the Church alike would be furthered by such discussions. Truth surely has nothing to fear from error, so long as it is left free to combat it.

"Since the personal appeals of Pastor Schick accordingly rest on a mistaken view as to the author of the article with whose critique he concerns himself, they are of course quite improper, and, like some others which have occasionally appeared in your paper, equally unjust and unkind toward me personally. But I am prepared to leave my defense in this matter to the progress of events, since I believe that my vindication will in due course be found in the history of the Lutheran Church.

"But Pastor Schick appears no less unfortunate in determining the meaning than the author of the article in question. I have no inclination to defend the opinions expressed by my colleague, since on several points I am of a different view than he; but it is a duty owed to the truth to say that Pastor Schick has evidently misunderstood the tendency of the article in several important particulars. I suspect that the omission of the negation in his translation, page 275,