# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1860_S183
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Toward the Grounding of a New Physico-Theology. 183

which has maintained a mission in the Zulu country in Natal, in southeastern Africa, ever since 1843. One of the most distinguished young theologians of Norway, H. P. S. Schreuder (born 1817), devoted himself to this godly work, went with a few helpers into the heathen land, studied the Zulu language, published a grammar of it, and translated, among other things, the catechism. For a long time, however, this labor seemingly bore no fruit; for fifteen years passed without a single heathen yet being baptized. The reason for this lay in part in the plan of the mission itself, in that it was more a "national mission" and directed its work at the whole people and their king. In this respect much was in fact accomplished, in that Christianity and the missionaries won not only protection and favor, but also exercised a considerable, beneficial influence on both king and people. At last, on June 6, 1858, the first heathen was baptized, and others have since been added. In what is probably the most recent report to have reached us, a letter from the Reverend Pastor Schreuder dated December 27, 1859, he expresses the hope that at the feast of Epiphany he would be able to baptize a few more, and at the same time his resolve to solemnly ordain, on the second Sunday after Easter — April 22 — those of his helpers who might wish it, for which he asks the intercession of all true friends of missions. — The most powerful impetus for the advancement of the mission, however, has been given by the fact that last year a mission school was established in Stavanger, which began operating with 8 pupils. The school has obtained two capable teachers, and the excellent arrangement has been made that the afternoons are devoted to learning a trade. Recently, several Christian craftsmen have also been sent out with their families to the mission field, chiefly to lend assistance in outdoor labor. It thus appears as though, through the fruits at last harvested, the former submissive and patient expectation has turned into a truly lively and active zeal, which can call forth from us only the prayer: God bless the faithful labor of His servants here and everywhere! Amen.

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(From the Evangelical Church Gazette, February 1860.)

Toward the Grounding of a New Physico-Theology. (On Louis Agassiz's, Professor's in Boston, Theistic View of the World.)

(We are printing the following essay unabridged in our theological journal, since we believe that the public renunciation of the materialism of our time by one of the most celebrated naturalists of the present day — and the influence of this man, which, through the increasing sale of Agassiz's newest work among our fellow citizens, will foreseeably spread ever further — must also be of the highest interest to our German readers, to whom it is no secret that the great mass of Germans in this country has fallen victim to scientific and unscientific materialism. L. u. W.)

Whoever has followed German natural science, even only superficially, over the last several decades