# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1861_S152
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152 Gleanings from Reading. — Church and Contemporary Affairs.

Württemberg.) Vol. 9: From All Estates. (Lazarus Spengler. Brück and Beier. Hieronymus Baumgärtner. Albrecht Dürer and Hans Sachs. Lucas Cranach. Matth. Ratzenberger. Hans von Ungnad.) — Note. As regards the individual men, this is more exemplification than definitive determination.

Die Lehre vom Gebet aus der immanenten und ökonomischen Trinität abgeleitet [The Doctrine of Prayer Derived from the Immanent and Economic Trinity], by Dr. phil. Richard Löber, pastor at Eichenberg in Saxe-Altenburg. Second revised and enlarged edition. Erlangen. A. Deichert. 1861. Octavo. 144 pp. 16 Neugroschen.

Predigten für alle Sonn- und Festtage des Kirchenjahres [Sermons for All Sundays and Festivals of the Church Year], by D. G. Thomasius, ordinary professor of theology and university preacher in Erlangen. Erlangen, A. Deichert. 1861. First part, Advent to Exaudi. 2nd edition. Large octavo: 458 pp.

Die Weissagungen Haggai's erklärt [The Prophecies of Haggai Explained], by Lic. Dr. A. Köhler, Privatdocent of theology in Erlangen. Erlangen, A. Deichert. 1861. Octavo. 128 pp. 15 Neugroschen.

Hans Sachs. A Selection from His Works, edited by D. Georg Wilhelm Hopf. Nuremberg, J. L. Schmid's Verlag. 1856. Duodecimo. Vol. 1, 342 pp. Vol. 2, 341 pp. L.


Gleanings from Reading.

An example of how our scholars, in their studies in the old heathen writings, often become altogether heathen themselves is the romantic writer Karl Simrock. In his commentaries on the Edda, after praising the upsurge that the investigation of German antiquities has lately taken, he writes among other things the following: "It does not satisfy the gods of our fatherland to have their statues set up in museums; they wish to celebrate their resurrection in our hearts. . . In Germany the zeal of the Christian priests was unfortunately at pains, with all too great success, to eradicate heathenism down to its last traces." (Die Edda etc., by K. Simrock. Stuttgart 1851, pp. 318, 319.)


Church and Contemporary Affairs.

I. America.

The editor of the Informatorium publishes in the number of that paper for April 1 a "Retraction," in which it finally says: "We therefore, under such circumstances, publicly withdraw for conscience' sake the recognition that we gave on September 1, 1860, in the churchly Informatorium of the Ohio Kirchen-Zeitung." So the bond of fraternity in faith with Ohio has been torn asunder even more quickly than the one with chiliastic Iowa.

The Luth. Observer and the South. The following we read in the "Lutheran" of April 5: "A person connected with the business management of the Observer added, in for-