# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S54
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

54 The Ottoman Empire.

faith and reborn walk before God, in faith and in love, as saints and beloved ones, and have a comforted and steadfast heart in grace.

But if we damage this Gospel by mixing in the Law and its works, or self-devised inward or outward works-righteousness — be it of a papist, pietist, or enthusiast kind — into this transaction of justification, then we preachers share the guilt when our parishioners fail to obtain and keep, through God's grace, a truly comforted and steadfast heart, particularly against the accusation of conscience, of the Law, and of the devil, and fall into unbelief or false belief. (To be continued.)

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(From the Allgemeine Kirchen-Zeitung.)
The Ottoman Empire.

Darmstadt, October 5. For some days now the political newspapers have called attention to a small pamphlet that has appeared under the title "The Protection of the Christians in the Orient" (Frankfurt am Main, Literarische Anstalt), whose author gives his name as Prince Emil von Sayn-Wittgenstein. We hope to be able to report on it in more detail, since, owing to its well-informed princely author, it is highly interesting and significant. For now we confine ourselves to acquainting our readers with a short excerpt from it that appears in the Neue Preußische Zeitung. According to that newspaper, the author begins:

"When, in the years 1853, 1854, and 1855, Turkey, under the banner of civilization and led by the strings of its official representatives, fought against the then-proverbial barbarism of Russia, some of its more optimistic friends may well have believed that it was on the road to political and moral improvement. The great mass of clear-thinking people, however, especially all those who know the Orient from their own observation, did not believe it. — The peace of 1856 was concluded, and in it the equal rights of the Rajahs with the Muslims in ecclesiastical and civil matters were guaranteed and emphasized. Such a resolution of the bloodiest entanglement of our time might well have seemed strange to the impartial observer who considered that the achievement of precisely this result had been a chief point in the program of Emperor Nicholas — the very program which, presented to the world as the ne plus ultra of an arrogance contrary to international law, unleashed a storm of indignation upon his head, overran his borders with a veritable crusade of European enlightenment on behalf of the crescent, and dictated to the then Archbishop of Paris his famous appeal for an alliance of Christianity and Islam against the Greek schism. — The purpose of the Allies was achieved; Russia, as people wrote at the time, was humbled, and now the representatives of international law, begrudging Russia the role, themselves took up the protection of the Christian