# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1858_S371
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Correspondence from Germany. 371

fields; the fock-rust on the lee side; the plank at the rudder; the sled
track; the coining, the mint fee, the seigniorage.
speculative, probing, brooding, transcendent; enterprising.
gloomy, glum, dusky, dimly glowing, dark, somber, sullen, morose, dull

(Ezek. 32:2), sulky, sullen, scowling.

Amt [office] (ambacht) Ampt, Ambacht, S.G.*), the assembly, the
congregation, the communal observance, the public service, the public
proceeding, the assembled authority; the commission; the guild, the trade
association; the employment, position, dignity.

Apart from the correct spelling (orthography) to be gathered from this, the
usefulness to be drawn from this lexicon would appear, on this showing, to be
manifold indeed. We would only recall the great wealth of genuinely German
expressions which anyone acquires in a short time who merely leafs through a
few pages now and then as a diversion, and the correct understanding — not
only of foreign, but also of archaic, obsolete, and provincial expressions —
that can be drawn from it toward understanding old and new writings. — The
work comprises 1116 pages in large quarto. The second (stereotyped) edition
of it has been prepared by Beck of Nördlingen and can be had from that
bookshop for 2 Thaler or 3 Gulden 86 Kreuzer.

With this we close, then, our listing of the writings of the first class
belonging in the pastor's library.

(To be continued.)

Correspondence from Germany.

A highly esteemed friend writes to us under date of October 5 of this year,
from the old fatherland, among other things the following:

"What Germany — as it presents itself and, at least as far as one can judge
from the street, appears to someone who has stood for a series of years in
circumstances that, on the whole, let the Word of God take its course —
would have to make into a kind of torture-chamber, if the spirit always had
the upper hand, is, going by the impression that my dull senses have
received from the North Pole (if I may also call it cold in another sense),
not so much the boundless service of Mammon into which it has sunk, its
dreadful estrangement from all divine life, and the raging narrow-mindedness
with which it meets — in individuals, in relation to what the church has
been and is meant to be — only very feeble stirrings of piety, than —

*) S.G. is an abbreviation for South German; a preceding list explains the
abbreviations used, and an appendix gives the scriptural abbreviations
occurring generally, as well as an index of baptismal and proper names with
an indication of the language from which they are derived.