# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S56
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56 Literary Notices.

plow from the field, the Raja is exposed daily, indeed hourly, to the arbitrary cruelty and brutality of his tormentors to such a degree that he prays God his marriage may be childless; from the bashi-bazouk and common soldier upward to the pasha, every one of them is his tyrant, who violates his wife, his boys and his girls, desecrates his church, strikes down every contradiction to the ground with a club or with the yataghan, plunders his goods, and tortures him to death with the most horrible torments if he is suspected of having hidden money anywhere. And this majority of three-quarters against one quarter does not dare to rise up against their oppressors, because, stunted under the pressure of centuries, without support, without leaders, it has lost its self-confidence, and because it knows well from experience that its protectors, after a few fruitless negotiations, will only abandon it again to the vengeance of its executioners, so as not to endanger the European balance of power — that great catchword of the diplomats which parries every objection — the European balance of power whose wretched remnants have long lain rotting on the battlefields of Sevastopol and Solferino!

The above figures, which in fact make European Turkey into a Christian land only partly inhabited by Turks, show more clearly than any argument that the evil could be remedied, without endangering the peace of Europe, if the great powers came to an understanding simply to replace the Mohammedan government with a Christian one. Unfortunately, however, the good will for so peaceful a solution of the Eastern Question is lacking, and the voices of political jealousy drown out the cry for help of the persecuted; meanwhile, however, the growing danger makes it the duty of every Christian state to see to at least what most immediately concerns its own conscience: the material protection of its officials and subjects."

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Literary Notices.

Published by S. G. Liesching in Stuttgart in the autumn of 1860:
1. Adolph von Harless, The Question of Divorce. A renewed examination of the New Testament passages. 9 sheets in large octavo. Paper-bound, 24 silver groschen, 1 florin 20 kreuzer Rhenish.
2. G. Chr. Eberle, pastor — Luther, a Sign Which Is Spoken Against. On the conflict of spirits within the evangelical Church. 7 sheets, large octavo. Paper-bound, 12 silver groschen — 36 kreuzer.

Published by A. Perthes in Gotha:
A. Tholuck, The Old Testament in the New Testament. On the citations of the Old Testament in the New, and on the concept of sacrifice and priesthood in the Old and New Testaments. 5th edition. Large octavo. 1861, paper-bound, 16 silver groschen.

Published by Dörffling and Franke in Leipzig:
Sermons delivered in the University Church of St. Paul in Leipzig by Gerhard von Zezschwitz, professor and second university preacher. Large octavo. 1860. 401 pages. 1⅔ thalers.