# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1860_S156
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156 Church News of the Times.

subjects, in the Mission House, and through his continued counsel as a member of the Collegium and deputy chairman, and besides also by undertaking journeys and serving the cause of the Mission in a literary way with his powers and his experience still further. Since now our wishes could not alter his resolve to retire from the directorship, the prospect of being able to retain at least his activity for the Collegium and the Mission House, even if in another position, had to appear to us a gain, upon whose securing as far as possible we had to bend every effort. In this sense the negotiations between the Collegium and Dr. Graul were brought to a close.

We at once sought to win a new director for our Mission Institute. From several quarters our attention was drawn to Pastor Hardeland, a native of the Kingdom of Hanover, at Lassahn in Lauenburg (brother of the present superintendent in the service of the Hermannsburg Mission), and after all that we heard and saw of him we gained the full confidence to put to him the question whether he would be willing to follow a call directed to that end. Since the answer to our preliminary inquiry was, to our great joy, affirmative, we, after having obtained the unanimous consent of our societies, at once took the necessary steps to obtain the approval of our choice from the church authorities. This has, after fulfillment of the necessary preconditions, reached us a few days ago, and no obstacle now stands in the way of the public announcement of this matter, so important for our Mission. The new director will take up his office about Easter.

We now call upon the dear friends of the Mission near and far to unite their heartfelt and earnest prayer with our own, that the Lord, whom we desire to serve, would carry through this whole undertaking of His servants, as it has been begun in His name and with a look up to Him, to the honor of His name and for the benefit of His holy cause.

The Collegium of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission at Leipzig.

Baden. With the new year two church periodicals have suddenly reappeared at once in Baden: a rationalist one, edited by Zittel, Schenkel, and Häußer, under the title "Süddeutsches Wochenblatt," which sets itself the task especially of fighting against the agreement of the Grand Duke with the Pope, and besides also of winning a freer constitution for the united church; then a more positive one, for whose publication 23 clergy of the land from pietist and mediating circles have joined together. This bears the name: Evangelisches Kirchen- und Volksblatt für das Großherzogthum Baden; and as contributors we find, alongside the pietists Stern, Zimmermann, Ledderhose, the more church-minded men: Eberlin, Frommel, and the mediating man, court preacher Beyschlag. (Freimund.)

The Erlangen Edition of Luther's Latin Works. The publishing house of Heyder and Zimmer in Frankfurt am Main, on announcing the just-published 22nd volume (Scholia in Esajam prophetam), makes the following known: "The slight interest in our edition of Luther's Latin writings, although it is the first in 250 years to reproduce these in the original language, makes us hesitate to continue it. Only if a livelier interest is shown also for a complete edition of Luther's Latin writings — which would first have to be shown in the purchase of the volumes already published — will the publishing house resolve to print the still-missing (about 12–14) volumes. As soon as the number of subscribers has increased so far that the costs are covered, it will then begin the printing and continue and complete it without further interruption, just as was done with the