# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1860_S155
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Church News of the Times. 155

...is well known, the Superior Church Collegium of the Ev. Lutheran Church in Prussia has for some time been in negotiations with the Lutheran Mission College at Leipzig regarding safeguarding the rights of conscience of those mission trainees who scruple to commune with a clergyman who, as regards admission to the Holy Supper, follows the principle of the Union. The Mission College, in answer to the question whether Prussian mission trainees would in such cases be permitted to receive the Holy Supper from a clergyman who in this respect proceeds in accordance with church order, has answered: it would be willing, under certain circumstances and in a spirit of pastoral consideration, to allow that a trainee have his confessor elsewhere. The Superior Church Collegium, regretting that it cannot be satisfied with this generally worded assurance, puts to the Prussian Lutherans, in No. 1 of this year's Kirchenblatt, the question whether its previous connection with the Leipzig Mission ought therefore to be given up or not. The resolution of this question is to be a task for the next Prussian General Synod." (Pilger aus Sachsen.)

Evangelical Military Chaplaincy. For the spiritual care of the Evangelicals in the French army, the press reports, provision has been made in the last war in a manner still more thoroughly and abundantly organized than in the Crimean campaign. Twelve evangelical army chaplains, together with their field superintendent, have been mobile with the army and active in pastoral care on every side, especially in the hospitals at Milan, Bergamo, and Brescia. Although the number of Protestants in the French army is far smaller than in the Austrian, the latter nevertheless has only a single evangelical army chaplain, for which reason the substitution of Catholic army chaplains has very often had to be resorted to in it. — The Tuscan government has issued a circular to the military commanders concerned, in which the religious relations of non-Catholic soldiers are regulated to the effect that these need not attend the religious functions of the Catholics, but that the corps commanders concerned should rather see to it that they are given the necessary time to attend the religious functions of their own confession. In Sardinia this practice also obtains.

It is reported from Upper Austria: With us too the question stirs minds greatly, whether a presbyterial or a consistorial system should be given us. The congregations of Austria seem to be very much in favor of the presbyterial system, and in particular also of the free election of superintendents and seniors. Some congregations have therefore sent a deputation of their own to Vienna. (Freimund.)

Luther's Children's Hymn. The "Freimund" reports that the Paris "Univers" recently wrote: The wretched Reformed preachers let the dreadful hymn of Luther's be sung in their churches: Seigneur, favorisez le meurtre du pape et du diable! in German: Lord, favor the murder of the Pope and of the Devil (their being put to death)! — One sees that the papist realm still feels the sting of the Lutheran hymn and lashes out against it in malice.

The Evangelical Lutheran Mission at Leipzig. From the Evangelical Lutheran Mission paper of February 15 of this year we take the following "communication. Since Dr. Graul had already, under date of March 24, 1858, plainly declared to the Collegium, and through it to the mission societies, his wish to lay down the directorship of the Mission Institute once a successor should be found for him, a motion was finally made and carried at the last general assembly that the Collegium should take such steps as might be suitable to secure for our Mission, with confidence, the continuance of Dr. Graul's services. In consequence we made it our concern to open the necessary negotiations with him, in order to secure his services for our Mission also for the future. This, to be sure, did not succeed for us to the extent we had wished, since Dr. Graul could not bring himself to retain the directorship. He declared himself, however, willing in the course of the negotiations to continue serving the cause of the Mission with his powers and his experience, by taking on certain subjects of instruction, namely the actual mission