# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1861_S190
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190 Church and Contemporary News.

47. The division of the kingdom. 48. Elijah fed by the ravens. 49. Elijah's
ascension. 50. The return from the exile. 51. Mordecai raised to honor. 52.
Job's composure. 53. The birth of John announced. 54. The annunciation to
Mary. 55. The circumcision of John. 56. The birth of Christ. 57. The adoration
of the shepherds. 58. The presentation in the temple. 59. The adoration of the
wise men. 60. The flight into Egypt. 61. The twelve-year-old Jesus in the
temple. 62. John in the wilderness. 63. The baptism of Christ. 64. The
temptation. 65. The wedding at Cana. 66. Jesus cleanses the temple. 67.
Nicodemus. 68. Jesus and the Samaritan woman. 69. The healing of the paralytic.
70. The Sermon on the Mount. 71. The young man at Nain. 72. The miraculous
feeding of the multitude. 73. Jesus holds the sinking Peter. 74. The
transfiguration. 75. Martha and Mary. 76. The good Samaritan. 77. The prodigal
son. 78. The raising of Lazarus. 79. Jesus calls the little children to himself.
80. The anointing of Jesus. 81. The entry into Jerusalem. 82. The washing of
feet. 83. Holy Supper. 84. The agony in Gethsemane. 85. The arrest. 86. Jesus
before Caiaphas. 87. Peter's denial. 88. The scourging. 89. The people demand
Jesus' blood. 90. The bearing of the cross. 91. The crucifixion. 92. The
entombment. 93. The resurrection. 94. Christ appears to the Magdalene. 95. The
disciples on the road to Emmaus. 96. Thomas. 97. The ascension. 98. Pentecost.
99. The stoning of Stephen. 100. Saul's conversion.

Church and Contemporary News.

I. America.

The Reformed Church Gazette. With reference to the remark in the April number,
p. 125, the editor of that journal gives the following declaration: "A longer
communication in the Church Gazette of March 15 contains several citations from
an English author which we must disapprove in the most decided manner. Neither
would they have found admission into our paper had we not been prevented from
examining the piece beforehand, before it went into the compositor's hands. The
remarks of a colleague upon it are just, and we thank him for having directed
our attention to this matter." — This declaration does the editor of the
Reformed Church Gazette nothing but honor, and it were to be wished that certain
other editors who have received similar friendly reminders would take him for
their model; then much harm and much discord would be prevented.

II. Abroad.

Chiliasm. Last year there appeared at Gütersloh the work of a Lippe preacher
bearing the title: "The thousand-year kingdom belongs not to the past but to the
future." The author means to be an opponent of "spiritualism" and a zealous
representative of "biblical realism." To the objection that Revelation says each
gate of the new Jerusalem will be made of a single pearl, and whether he really
means to take this too in the proper sense, the chiliastic author answers: "If
God will transfigure the earthly pearl and make a heavenly pearl of it, should
he not be able — since with him nothing is impossible — to let it grow to such a
size that a single pearl suffices to make a gate of the new