# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S20
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20 Excerpts as Contributions to Pastoral Casuistry.

they had not meant, by the words contained in § 1, to renounce the
confession of their ancestral faith, but had thought thereby only to
satisfy a general formality." —

Excerpts as Contributions to Pastoral Casuistry.

What is to be done when, in administering the Holy Supper, the
consecrated elements do not suffice?

This question is answered by Dr. Ludwig Hartmann, formerly
superintendent at Rothenburg on the Tauber, died 1684, in his
Pastorale Evangelicum as follows: "It is to be noted that if a
shortage should occur anywhere, either of the consecrated bread or of
the wine, the consecration must then be repeated; for it is more
fitting to consecrate a new host than to break the last of the
consecrated hosts (if only one is lacking) and give each of the last
two communicants half of it." (Ibid., p. 825.)

As for this latter case, there is found in the so-called "Unschuldige
Nachrichten" [Innocent Reports] of V. E. Löscher a remarkable
historical illustration of the delicacy of this breaking of bread as
well. There, namely, a letter of Georg Wilhelm, the Reformed Elector
of Brandenburg, to the Cleves government, from the year 1637, is
communicated, in which the Elector first expresses his astonishment
that, according to a complaint received, a Reformed nobleman, Caspar
von Romberg of Brüninghausen, under the pretext of his right of
patronage — that is, his right of appointing the pastor — had, after
the death of the previous pastor of the Lutheran congregation at
Wellinghofen, forcibly imposed upon it a Reformed preacher and robbed
it of the Lutheran religious exercise handed down from ancient times,
and was in this being supported by the Cleves government in the most
unjust manner. Then the Electoral letter goes on to say further: "And
what is worst, a like report reaches us, that you should also, in
other places, oppress the Lutheran congregations, force upon them the
Reformed exercise against their will and dispossess them of their
own, and to that end even make use of certain wholly unsuitable
pretexts; and that, because now a Lutheran pastor, for lack of enough
wafers for the number of communicants, has had to divide some into
several pieces and break them, or a schoolmaster, for want of other
books, has merely had some boys read out of the Heidelberg Catechism:
such things are cited as proof of the traditional Reformed exercise."
(Year 1738, under the title Fortgesetzte Sammlung von alten und
neuen theologischen Sachen [Continued Collection of Old and New
Theological Matters], p. 142 ff. The whole princely letter, if it
suited our purpose, would well be worth reprinting here again, as
proof of how often, beyond all measure, indeed crying out to heaven,
unjustly and cruelly the Reformed, wherever they held the power,