# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1860_S347
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Literature. 347

opinions as the word of God? What protection do our congregations still have against the arbitrariness of such preachers, who push the main thing into the background behind such petty human contrivances of recent, yesterday's date?

There is no doubt that our age is again asking more after faith; the churches are filling up; there is seeking and searching here and there, and whoever observes our people attentively cannot fail to recognize this seeking and asking in a great many circles. But, as has always been the case in such times, it is also a sickness of this our age that far too many are no longer content with the One Thing that is needful. It happens very often, just as it did there with Israel in the wilderness, which grew weary of the manna because it came every day, and had had enough of it: it wanted more piquant fare. Of such piquant fare there is indeed a good deal to be had: the catchwords are well known on this side and that, from the camp of the right as of the left. The question of the thousand-year kingdom belongs among them too. It takes very little skill to draw our congregations into chiliastic questions and enthusiasms: for one can very well be a zealous chiliast without being a good Christian and having to lay aside one's evil habits. It is just as easy as becoming a confessional zealot, by which, as is well known, the old man is likewise not yet laid aside. Our congregations therefore need something else. The daily bread, the good, nourishing home fare, is what they need, and not delicacies of a piquant sort — if our Lord is still right in His word: One thing is needful! The Gospel is what our congregations need — not as Clöter preaches it, but as Paul and the other apostles preached it, so that they may learn what they have and can become in Christ, and not merely brood and take up and pursue all sorts of peculiar, self-chosen things, but rather that through this Gospel they may become new men who bring forth fruit with patience. So Luther held it, and our evangelical Church has always accounted it her honor to walk in the footsteps of Luther and of the apostles.

Literature.

According to an announcement in the Darmstadt Kirchenzeitung, a new German theological journal is shortly to appear in London under the following title:

"English-Theological Researches and Reviews. Edited by Dr. M. Heidenheim, theological member of the Royal College in London." Yearly 3–4 numbers in octavo of 10–15 sheets each. Price of the annual volume, 3–4 Prussian Thalers.

The purpose of this journal is to be threefold.

"1. All phenomena in the theological field are to be discussed precisely, and the most important matters from them communicated to the reader, so