# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S43
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Referat on the Right Preaching of the Doctrine of Justification. 43

As evidence of the attempts, still constantly made despite this, to set forth and establish the agreement of these so-called results of natural science with biblical truth, the following are named: "Fr. Pfaff, History of Creation with Special Regard to the Biblical Account of Creation, Frankfurt 1855; Andr. Wagner, History of the Primeval World, 2 parts, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1857; H. Kurtz, Bible and Astronomy, 4th ed., Berlin 1858; Fr. v. Rougemont, History of the Earth According to the Bible and Geology, German by Fabarius, Gotha 1856." Yet the paths taken toward demonstrating this agreement differ. Whereas Kurtz, following Hengstenberg's brief remarks on this subject in the Ev. K. Z. [Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung] 1846, No. 37, p. 315, in the 3rd and 4th editions of his aforementioned work, places not only the whole formation of the mountains with their petrifactions, but also the so-called diluvium with its fossil inclusions, before the six-day work of biblical creation — a view to which both Rougemont and A. Wagner, in the second edition of his History of the Primeval World (the latter, however, only with a heavy heart), have subscribed — others, such as Pfaff and Delitzsch in his commentary on Genesis, seek to accommodate the geological facts within the six biblical days of creation by turning these days into periods of creation of incalculably long duration."

(To be continued.)

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(Submitted by Dr. Sihler.

Referat on Preaching the Right Doctrine of Justification.

When the task was set before the undersigned to present a referat "on the manner of rightly preaching justification," he must state at the very outset that what follows is to be regarded only as an attempt, not as an adequate solution to this task; and it can only be welcome to the referent if the manifold deficiencies and gaps, indeed perhaps even mistakes, at least afford occasion to discuss this most important matter further by word of mouth, so that we may thereby draw nearer to a more complete solution of that task and take up into our common consciousness the treasure of truth already gained.

But before we proceed to the matter itself, it will be necessary first to keep the following points at least in outline before our eyes:

First, wherein the doctrine of justification essentially and properly consists.

Second, how it is connected, backward and forward, with the foremost articles of Christian doctrine.