# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1860_S348
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348 Church and Contemporary History.

so that those not versed in the English language might nevertheless be given the opportunity to become acquainted with the new researches and views.

2. Theological treatises are to be supplied, and hitherto unknown manuscripts from the British Museum published, translated, and explained. We hope first of all to offer pieces from the Samaritan literature, still almost entirely unknown to this day, since what Gesenius published from it was of very little significance. The editor of this journal will draw material from more than nine substantial quarto volumes. The prayer-pieces and hymns of the Samaritans are for the most part composed in the Hebrew language and contain important historical notices. The whole Messianic doctrine of this people will be communicated in detail, and the meaning of the "Tehaf" will be given.

Furthermore, Bible codices hitherto left unconsidered are to be described, and reproductions from them supplied as well, which must be of great importance for biblical exegesis. It is our most heartfelt wish to give this journal the widest possible scope and to make it into an archive in which new material is offered to the scholar for further study.

3. A faithful picture of the churchly conditions of England and America is to be presented, and the activity in the religious sphere in these countries continually offers rich material for this. To the kindly disposed reader the developments within the various confessions will be presented in the most accurate and unbiased manner possible.

Just one more word on the standpoint of this journal! It is to be neither Anglican nor Lutheran, neither Reformed nor Methodist, but is to defend a scholarship that has ripened on biblical-historical (?) ground, and to become a theological journal in the strict sense of the word."

Church and Contemporary History.

I. America.

Missions. In the Rev. Pastor Brobst's Lutheran journal we read: "Pastor Klindworth in Galena, Illinois, a member of the German Synod of Iowa, writes to us under date of September 1: Last week the sorrowful news reached us that our missionary Bräuninger has either been murdered by the Indians or is being held captive by them; the former, however, is likely to be the more probable."

In the "Fröhlicher Botschafter" ["Joyful Messenger"], the organ of the sect of the "United Brethren in Christ," there appears, in the issue of September 27, a submitted piece under the heading: "A Matter of Grammar. 'Ladies and Gentlemen' versus 'Gentlemen and Ladies.'" It says there, among other things: "'My ladies and gentlemen' is correct in an address when it is made by a gentleman. So it is likewise always done by the English, and the Germans show themselves very impolite when they use it the other way around." Important lessons in a religious organ! But what, one wonders, might be the reason that the ladies must be named first? The apostle Paul seems to have known nothing yet of this. Cf. 1 Timothy 2:8–14.