# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1860_S94
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94    Church and Contemporary Notes.

representative authority, but it performs ordination only in its "ministerial" capacity; the call to particular ministerial acts can proceed either from the individual congregation, or also from the church according to its synodical authority, which takes place through installation.

Third, with regard to applicants from other Lutheran synods, your Committee proposes the following:

a. Applicants who acknowledge the symbolical books of the Lutheran church and accept them unconditionally, and who also bring an honorable dismissal from a Lutheran synod, may be received at once into individual districts.

b. Applicants who bring no such dismissal, but complain that one was unlawfully withheld from them by the synod to which they belonged, shall be turned back for a year, during which time, however, the president of the district to which the application was addressed shall correspond with the presiding officer of the synod to which the applicant belonged, in order to ascertain the grounds on which an honorable dismissal was not granted. The result of this inquiry shall be laid before the next regular session of the district concerned. If the grounds for withholding it are sufficient, the applicant shall either be referred back to his synod, to settle his case with it first, or, depending on circumstances, admission shall be flatly refused him. If, however, those grounds are not sufficient, but unjust and calculated only to make a change of synod difficult or impossible for the applicant, and everything else about him is in good order, he shall nevertheless be received.

Emanuel Schmid; Daniel Worley; Isaac Hursch;
J. G. Lehrer; H. W. Rose."

The first point was adopted, likewise the third and the introductory sections. Regarding the second, however, it was "resolved: that the second point of the report of the 5th Committee appear as an appendix in the proceedings, together with such theses on the question of church and ministry as the members of the synod may hand in to the secretary during this session, and which, along with those of the 5th Committee, shall be regarded as proposals for the next General Synod."

In Philadelphia there are at present 28 Roman Catholic churches within the city limits, and the Roman Catholic population of the city is estimated at 130,000.
(Missionary.)

The Albright People. Some of the more notable "impressions (of a member of the fellowship of the Albright People) during the General Conference" of that body are communicated, signed "Maria," in the following manner in the handsomely produced organ of this fellowship, the "Christlicher Botschafter" [Christian Messenger] of Cleveland: "Secondly, I was almost proud of the favorable physiognomic and phrenological appearance which this venerable body presented. And what was especially to its advantage in this regard, to my mind, was the fact that our dear heavenly Father has let so many of our preachers go bald. For this I am quite glad, because now they can no longer insult their Creator by combing their hair down over their forehead and thereby giving themselves an idiotic look..... But what grieved me most of all was to see that so many of our preachers, who nevertheless profess to believe in a complete redemption from all sins in this life, are given over to the needless use of tobacco."

"Kirkelig Maanedstidende" has come out this year in double size and has now become the organ "of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America," edited by Pastor H. A. Preus; formerly it was the private organ of the ministers of that same synod. The first number contains chiefly a report of the proceedings of the synod held in October of last year, the fourth of this ecclesiastical body, which was only fully organized in 1853. The main subject of the proceedings was the question of the relationship between the general priesthood and the preaching office,