# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1860_S249
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Literature. 249

study their sermons more easily and deliver them to their hearers with less effort; the hearers, in that they take it in and retain it better. For even though the hearers are laymen and unlearned and do not understand order, they can nevertheless take in better what is taught in an orderly way than what is thrown together confuse (confusedly) and in a disorderly manner. Daily experience shows this. For often simple laypeople, even women and maidens, can recount in sequence the sum of a whole sermon, when it has been presented in a fittingly orderly way. But when no order is kept, people leave the church just as wise as they entered it, and do not even know what was said, whether it was, as the saying goes, "cut or thrust."

Literature.

Dr. Urban Rhegius's
Disputation on the Restoration of the Kingdom of Israel

against

All Chiliasts of All Times.
Translated
by

C. J. Hermann Fick.
Printed at the translator's expense and obtainable from J. A. Spalt in
Hermannsburg, 1860.

We feel compelled, in a time such as our own — when the Jewish doctrine of a glorious world-kingdom of the Jews, which the Messiah is to establish at the end of the days, is dressed up as a divine revelation granted by the Holy Spirit and is commended to believers almost everywhere, even within our own church — to call the attention of all friends of our church, and of divine truth generally, to this writing. It is not only a refreshing and strengthening testimony of the faith firmly grounded in God's Word: that the kingdom of Jesus Christ is a spiritual, heavenly, and eternal one; but at the same time also an irrefutable testimony that the Church of the Reformation, in its public ecclesiastical confession, rejected so-called Chiliasm in every form. In the divinely sealed knowledge of that truth, she indeed had to reject the chiliastic kingdom of the future no less than the papistic kingdom of the present.

The little book has received a valuable addition besides, in the communications concerning the life of this fellow-worker in the work of the Reformation, held by Luther himself, among others, in such high honor and esteem. — So we too join wholeheartedly in the request of the esteemed translator: that the Lord may now again lay his blessing upon this writing, which contains a word as timely as it is earnest and instructive.