# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1860_S125
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Church and Contemporary History. 125

-bolical books of the Lutheran Church. As is well known, on account
of the Calvinizing and Unionizing tendency of King Frederick II, the
Book of Concord was not recognized in Denmark and Norway, and matters
have since remained so, both in those two countries and in the
daughter church here. Now, all the preachers of the synod were indeed
agreed among themselves in heartily assenting, for their own persons,
to all the symbols; but among the laity they are themselves hardly
known even by name, and read by almost no one, since they have not
even been translated; there could therefore be no talk yet, for the
synod, of formally adopting them. But it was mentioned with joy that a
translation of the Book of Concord is now under way in Norway, and all
members of the church were urgently exhorted to make use of this fine
opportunity to become acquainted with the glorious, complete
confession of the Lutheran Church. L. L.

The "Katholische Kirchenzeitung" quotes from the work "The Pope and
the Emperor" by Dr. E. Kaffa, court and judicial advocate in Vienna,
among other things also the following words, introducing and
grounding a call for the raising of an army for the Pope: "It can, to
be sure, only please the Holy Father when comforting letters of
condolence are sent to him by the bishops, prelates, and Catholic
associations; it is certainly most praiseworthy that the Archbishop
of Orléans, out of fear of God, rises above the fear of man and
freely speaks his word of condemnation against the intrigues of
Imperialism; but the great moment demands — deeds. I want no
revolution, no religious war; I want only that the Pope alone make
use of his legal sovereign right, lead his rebellious subjects back
to their rightful duty, destroy the status quo that is today to
prejudice him, and restore the legal status quo ante. As often as, and
now too, when there has been talk of the attack upon the Holy See,
everyone has frozen before the consequences of such an outrage, which
could call two hundred million Catholics into the field for the
defense of their Palladium. But what are these two hundred million
Catholics to do first of all? Are they to revolt against Emperor
Napoleon's own land? .... Are they merely, like the Jews, to sing
lamentations and sulk, or, as modern usage calls it, to offer passive
resistance? Neither the one nor the other, but rather the feared
power of the two hundred million Catholics must unfold itself in a
legal and expedient manner." The work now closes with an appeal to all
church councils to form a fighting force in the above sense. So this
same number of the Kirchenzeitung already brings a war-song for those
who wish to reconquer for the Pope the Palladium, or pledge, made of
stone and earth, for the continuance of the papist realm which they
call the Catholic Church. Since, however, this papist Tyrtaeus's own
enthusiasm did not suffice, Goethe had to serve instead. The song
closes:

To Rome must faithful love now wend its way,
If fortune's golden palm is to bloom for us,
There our spirit's bond is knit more firmly;
Hail to us! it is the Christian's fatherland:
Know ye now this land? Thither, thither!
With thee, O faithful soul, I will go.

The "Deutsche Kirchenfreund" seems, as one may conclude from its
reports, now to confess itself to Bunsen's Japhet-Bible.

The Lutherische Kirchenbote, the German organ of the General Synod,
and the Lutherische Kirchenzeitung, the German organ of the Ohio
Synod, instruct their readers, from the Informatorium, that those
converted East Indians who hold fast to the caste system regard this
"heathen superstition" as a right, and indeed to such a degree as if
its observance and preservation were necessary to salvation — "about
the way the Missourian mobs here regard all sorts of so-called
congregational rights." We hereby ask the two synodal organs: 1) Who
are these Missourian mobs? 2) What are the congregational rights
meant here which, as far as their worth is concerned, stand on the
same level as heathen superstition, and whose exercise is held to be
necessary to salvation?