# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1860_S179
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Something More about the Church of Norway. 179

church government is founded) has now resigned. He had hoped at first that his teaching post would be left to him, but he has now been presented with the choice either simply to recant his confession as laid down (!), or to lose his office. Without hesitation he has chosen the latter, and we have now proposed to him that he come to you. In general, greater things are brewing in Hesse-Darmstadt. Chaplain H., by God's grace, is now firmly resolved to withdraw from the Hessian Union; several others will probably follow him, since there is no lack of Lutheran-minded people in the Hessian territorial church.

May the Lord's grace and blessing, then, rest upon the right union, pleasing to Him, that has now been concluded between us and you, and may it bring forth much fruit that abides unto eternal life!

(Submitted by Prof. L. Larsen.)

Something More about the Church of Norway.

In No. 9 of the IVth volume of this journal, an essay on the Church of Norway from the "Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung" was communicated, in which the facts and prevailing conditions were certainly, in all essentials, correctly presented. To supplement that report, I should like here, prompted by some news items contained in the "Kirkelig Maanedstidende" for April and May of this year, to communicate a few fragments: 1. concerning the most important attacks that other church communions have of late made upon the state church; 2. concerning the activity of a mission society, spread over the whole country, for the conversion of the heathen.

I. For a long time already the Roman church has had a congregation of foreigners in the capital, Christiania, which, however, was permitted to exist only by special royal permission; for until the year 1845 the old ordinance still held, that every non-Lutheran, or everyone who had fallen away from or been expelled by the Lutheran church, had to leave the country. In that year a new toleration act was adopted, by which complete freedom to hold public worship was granted to all Christian religious sects. This, naturally, the everywhere-active and ever-circumspect Catholic propaganda knew well how to exploit; it was, to be sure, secretly — yet, as they say, zealously — supported by the consort of King Oscar, and in 1856, on St. Olaf's day (the most honored of the earlier Norwegian saints, and patron saint of the land), the 29th of July, a large, beautiful church in pure Gothic style was solemnly dedicated in Christiania by the apostolic provicar of the Nordic lands and confessor of the queen, Studach. At about the same time the Catholics made a great effort at another and quite unexpected point, in that they sent a whole missionary society up into the northernmost part of the country and the town of Tromsö situated there (vol. IV, p. 261, erro-