# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1860_S222
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222 Church Chronicle.

was appointed to take the matter in hand at once. This Committee consists of
forty gentlemen, from every part of the Union, who have made themselves especially
deserving of the welfare of the Germans in America. (Luth. Kirchenbote.)

II. Abroad.

On the widespread religious revivals in England and Ireland, a correspondent
of the A. K. Z. writes from London in the following manner: "The future must in
any case teach whether the whole so-called revival has called forth genuine piety.
We regret to learn, from a comparative list drawn up by opponents of this movement
concerning persons in Belfast given to drink, that this year five hundred more cases
have occurred than before, which certainly proves how slight the influence of the
revival has been on this class in Belfast. It is perhaps not too rash a judgment
to see in the religious revival, in many cases, only a formal one. Thousands make
confessions of faith, certain phrases are on everyone's lips, but the sanctification
of life is too often lacking. In most cases it is all theory and no practice."

As regards the mission of our Church in East India, No. 1 of this year's Leipzig
Mission Gazette reports a gratifying event: the establishment, in the service of the
mission, of a printing office and bindery at Tranquebar; in the course of this year a
young man will be sent out from Leipzig to set it up, one who has already spent a
considerable time preparing himself for it. The need to circulate good literature
among the Tamils has long been recognized as very essential; meeting that need is
the chief task of the missionary Blomstrand, who devotes himself to the work with
great zeal — the establishment of a press of its own is naturally a significant
advance for this work. In Leipzig there was at first some hesitation on account of
the cost; then a friend of the mission wrote that he would give 400 thalers a year
for this purpose, and that meant: forward. (Braunschweig Church Gazette.)

From Schleswig, May 3. In the congregation at Grundtoft in Angeln, where the
provost Hansen — repeatedly named at the time of the assembly of the Estates — serves
as preacher and pastor, the following occurred at this year's confirmation: the
confirmands prepared by the provost in the Danish language, forty-two in number,
withdrew silently immediately after the blessing from participation in the celebration
of the Lord's Supper — which customarily is joined to the act of confirmation — so as
not to have to receive the sacrament according to the Danish rite, in the Danish
language, as their confessor and pastor had expected of them.

(Pr. Z.)

Darmstadt. The Grand-Ducal Supreme Consistory has issued the following to all
evangelical pastoral offices of the Grand Duchy: "His Royal Highness the Grand Duke
has seen fit to order that henceforth the small Lutheran Catechism, together with the
questions contained in the Hessian Church Agenda of 1724, along with a book of texts
corresponding to the Lutheran confession, shall be used for religious instruction in
all the Lutheran congregations exclusively, that is, to the exclusion of the concurrent
use of the old Baden Catechism.

By highest command we hereby inform you of this Most High ordinance for your
information and observance, and append the notice that it is left to the clergy to
make use, until a general decision is reached, of the books of texts they have
hitherto used, or others corresponding to the Lutheran confession."

(A. K. Z.)

According to the "Presse," the evangelical congregations in Moravia recently
addressed a petition to the Ministry of Worship and Education in which, referring
to the imperial resolution of September 1 of last year, which held out to the
Evangelicals in the German-Slavic crown lands the prospect of a timely reorganization
of their church constitution, they ask for the speediest possible settlement of
this matter, so exceedingly important to the Protestants of the hereditary lands.
The congregations argue that only