# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1858_S380
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enlightened and cultivated members of a church deserving of respect will
be inclined to leave its fellowship." After such statements it can hardly
still be surprising to hear from Dr. Reynolds's own mouth, concerning the
various Protestant communions of this country — the Lutheran as well as
the Calvinist ones — that they "are founded on a heartfelt acceptance of
holy Scripture and of its God-given doctrines." Whoever, like Dr.
Reynolds, can regard the confession of the Lutheran church, or of any
other religious communion, as merely one mode of representing the true
Christian faith; whoever can say of Puritans that they held the true
faith as they had received it from God's own word; whoever, finally,
ascribes to the Calvinist sects of this country, just as much as to the
Lutheran church, a heartfelt acceptance of the Word of God — that man is
no Lutheran; he does not stand in the faith of the Augsburg Confession
and Luther's Small Catechism. For according to these there are not
various modes of representing Christian truth in the world, but only one
single one — namely, that of the Lutheran confession, which alone is
grounded in God's Word; nor do they recognize the faith of the Calvinists
as such to be the true one, but reject and condemn it in every point in
which it departs from the Lutheran, as an error contrary to "God's own
word." And therefore, according to the confession of our church, one
cannot ascribe to the various sects of this country, as such, a heartfelt
acceptance of the Word of God, since it is precisely our church that
refuses them church and altar fellowship, because they do not accept
God's Word heartily and sincerely. Therefore the above statements of Dr.
Reynolds contain, now and always, not Lutheran but unionistic principles.
Schick.

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As I had already written the foregoing, the following characteristic
article in the "Olive Branch" of November 10 came into my hands, which I
let follow here, without comment, in an exact translation:

"The Norwegian Professorship in St. Louis."

"We find the following article in the Missionary of the 4th inst.:

"'Norwegian Professorship. — The Norwegian Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin
and the neighboring states, which numbers about 15 pastors and perhaps
12,000 communicants, has recently resolved, as has been reported to our
readers, to endow a professorship at Concordia College in St. Louis, Mo.
Many thought this would not be carried out, but although subscriptions
have as yet been gathered in only three or four preaching districts in
Iowa and Wisconsin, the sum obtained already amounts to $7000! In some
congregations five or six