# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1861_S202
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202 A Guide to Chiliasm.

but hand over the confession of the Church, and its whole unity and solidity
as safeguarded by an evangelical constitution, to daily demolition by a mob
rule (ochlocracy) made bold and strong, which then may celebrate the victory
of its 'modern barbarism' over Christianity with the thunder of cannon." —

Though we do not here publicly accuse Mr. Pastor Grabau, on account of all
these invectives against the government of this land, its institutions and
its decisions, of downright openly revolutionary conduct, yet there is no
doubt that, had we written the like, this gentleman would then have raised a
corybantic outcry against us as an open revolutionary. However much sympathy
he may find in Germany for his state-church ideas, it remains to be seen
whether people there will feel greatly edified by such language about judges,
courts, laws and state institutions.

We note in addition that the Buffalo Synod has not entirely given up hope of
still winning the suit, and has therefore turned to the highest court of the
State of New York, the Court of Appeals in Albany. We shall in due time, God
willing, report the outcome of the matter.


A Guide to Chiliasm.

Under this title there is found in the "Neues Zeitblatt" of Dr. K. K. Münkel
for April an excellent essay, from which we communicate the following:

The Augsburg Confession has singled out of this fanaticism one point in
particular in which it displays itself quite grossly. It says in Article 17:
"that Christ will come again at the end of the world and raise up all the
dead, will give to the godly and the elect eternal life and everlasting joy,
but will condemn the ungodly and the devils to eternal torment." After the
twofold return of Christ, together with the twofold resurrection, has been
rejected in these words, it goes on: "Condemned are the Anabaptists, who hold
that the torment of condemned men and of the devils will come to an end;
likewise also others who at present spread Jewish opinions, that before the
resurrection of the dead the godly will everywhere suppress the ungodly and
take possession of a worldly kingdom." One would misunderstand this article
if one sought in it all the essential marks of the chiliasm on which our
Church has declared war. Only one mark is singled out, one which at that time,
in the days of the Reformation, came forward quite crudely, when Thomas
Münzer and the Anabaptists took up the sword in order to found and seize the
kingdom of the saints on earth. According to the word: My kingdom is not of
this world, were My kingdom of