# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1860_S288
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288 Church and Contemporary Affairs.

-ches. 2) Civil marriage has been introduced, but not as a standing institution, only for cases of necessity, that is, when clergy refuse to perform the marriage. The government seeks to avoid conflicts as far as possible; this is also evident from the fact that it may, at its discretion, appoint civil registrars — that is, such persons as look after the church registers and whatever is connected with them. It may thus entrust any burgomaster with this. 3) It is evident that far less has been granted to the Roman Church than the annulled agreement with the Pope had allowed it. Under the latter the Archbishop was permitted to govern according to the canonical laws, that is, according to the provisions of the Tridentine Council. Of this there is now no longer any question. 4) Hence great dissatisfaction is also noticeable among the Roman clergy. They are arming themselves for struggle and resistance; they declare that they intend to regard only that former agreement, and not these newest state laws, as authoritative. 5) The united Evangelical territorial church is likewise arming itself, though not for struggle, but for new conferences at Durlach, promoted especially by Zittel and his friends, in which splendid speeches are given and pressure is exerted toward the convening of synods and the introduction of universal, unrestricted suffrage and the complete equalization of the laity with the clergy. 6) The Lutheran congregations that have separated from the Union are now also petitioning for the grant of ecclesiastical rights, in particular for the grant of corporate rights, and there is some prospect held out to them that these will be granted.

In sum: peace has not yet been established, and along this road, along the roads of state-church legislation, it will probably never be established. There lies, too, in this liberal ecclesiastical legislation the fruitful seed of inner friction and discord — for example, in what has been laid down concerning the religious upbringing of children and concerning the responsibility of the clergy toward the state. It is true that the whole law concludes with precisely worked-out penal provisions for the case of official abuse, but all this does not heal the deep injury, not with herb or plaster either, but rather the Word of the Lord, which heals everything, and peace comes only from Him who has said: My peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you. John 16. Amen.
(Freimund.)

On Sunday, July 1, shortly after one o'clock at noon, the naturalist and storyteller Privy Councillor Dr. Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert died at Laufzorn near Munich, in the eighty-first year of his life. On July 4, at eight o'clock in the morning, he was buried. The Minister of Culture, the professors of the university, and the students showed the departed, along with many others who loved him, "the last honor" that a Christian can show to the seed-corn. But by this the faithful labor of "old Schubert" has certainly not yet had its last honor done to it; the memory of this righteous man will remain a blessing not only in the circles that surrounded him, but throughout all Germany. — He was born on April 25, 1780, at Hohenstein in the Schönburg lands in Saxony, and after completing his studies practiced first as a physician in Freiberg, Altenburg, and Dresden. He then became Director of the Realinstitut in Nuremberg, tutor at the court of Schwerin, and finally full professor of natural science in Erlangen, and afterward in Munich, where "old Schubert" was a man well known even among the poorer classes of the people. His textbook of natural history, his "Alte und Neue" [Old Things and New], his narratives, etc., are well known.
(Pilger aus Sachsen.)

Leipzig. The roster of personnel of the University of Leipzig that has appeared these days for the summer semester of 1860 shows a body of 106 academic instructors, of whom 13 belong to the theological, 20 to the legal, 29 to the medical, and 47 to the philosophical faculty. The number of students amounts to 874, namely 661 natives and 213 foreigners, to which are still to be added 11 not formally enrolled, hence 885 in all; whereas in the previous semester it was 848 (or, respectively, 863), namely 647 natives and 201 foreigners. Distributed among the individual faculties, it works out that 258 study theology, namely 183 natives and 75 foreigners; jurisprudence 258, namely 209 natives and 49 foreigners; medicine 184, namely 150 natives and 34 foreigners, and so forth. The number of theology students in the previous semester was 244, namely 180 natives and 64 foreigners. This number, then, and in particular also that of the foreign students, has again risen this semester, and is indeed the highest in many years. Thus in the winter semester of 1854–1855 the number of theology students was 170, namely 116 natives and 54 foreigners; since then it has kept climbing.
(Sächsisches Kirchen- und Schulblatt.)

Notice.

With the next number, the editorship of this journal, which since March of this year has been carried on by the undersigned owing to the absence of the editor, passes back into the hands of Herr Prof. Walther.
R. Lange.