# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1860_S60
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60 Church and Contemporary Notices.

Confusion. In the issue of the Reformed Tiffin "Evangelist" of December 28 of last year, we read: "It is beyond doubt certain that Christ died for the sins of all men." Shortly afterward it says in the same article: "Although we well know that Christ's death is a sufficient payment for all the sins of all men, we can hardly read a chapter of Scripture without noticing that not all men's sins are actually atoned for through Christ's death." Finally it is asserted: "That Christ died for all means only that He, so far as lies in Him, has on His part made forgiveness possible for all men." With these confused combinations the Evangelist evidently wishes to reconcile Reformed particularism with the Bible; but he shows plainly how the Reformed man, as such, has no notion of the completeness of the reconciliation already accomplished.

The Canada Conference of the Pittsburgh Synod resolved, at its meeting in Toronto on August 6–9, that at its next session a report should be given on the advisability, etc., of publishing a German church newspaper for Canada.

Abolitionist Fanaticism. To a notice communicated in the previous issue we add the following, that in New York the Rev. James B. Dunn, at a meeting in the Presbyterian church (corner of Prince and Marion Streets), compared Brown's execution to the crucifixion of Christ!

The Kirchenfreund has appeared in a new and handsomer format, 16 pages in quarto, with its annual subscription price reduced to $1.00. As publisher and editor, Schäfer and Koradi name themselves in the January number. The Kirchenfreund will, it is said, now also take up "its position above the confessions"; which is presumably meant to say, outside of, or alongside of, or within the confessions.

In New Jersey, a correspondent of the Missionary reports, a convention was held at Trenton in October of last year at which it was intended to found a Lutheran synod of that state. But no result came of it. Only 9 of the 17 ministers were present. Various difficulties stand in the way of forming a synod, the chief of which is likely the presence of "an extreme right and left wing as well as a center."

E. Romanowsky, formerly a member of the Missouri Synod, then of the Buffalo Synod, and after various other wanderings a member of the (united) Kirchenverein des Westens, has, as we learn from the Missionary, recently become a Presbyterian minister in St. Louis. The Missionary closes the notice with: Where next?

The United States had, according to the census of 1853, with a population of 23,100,876 souls, 26,842 so-called clergy, that is, one to every 863 souls. New Hampshire had one to every 490, New York one to every 722, Virginia one to every 1317, Louisiana one to every 3000 souls.

Separatists in Ohio. The little town of Zoar, in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, was settled by a party of Separatists who had come out of the Lutheran Church, had adopted the views of Jacob Böhme, and emigrated to America about 42 years ago. About 200 persons left the Kingdom of Württemberg in the year 1817, under the leadership of a certain Jacob M. Bimeler, and upon their arrival in this country bought 6000 acres of wild land at the above-named place, where they still live today, in a communal life of the strictest kind, in that all property and labor is distributed equally among all. Their officers are a director and three trustees, on whom rests the direction of all the temporal affairs of the society. These officers are chosen by the votes of the members of the society, both sexes possessing equal voting rights. The trustees are each elected for three years, in such a way that each year the term of office of one of them expires and another is to be elected.

In the year 1832 this settlement was very severely visited by cholera, whereby