# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1861_S208
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208 Some Matters Concerning the Division within the Leipzig Mission.

a period of eight days for consideration, demanded of me that I announce his
book in the Missionsblatt.

"'If you refuse,' it says there, 'to insert the enclosed advertisement in the
Missionsblatt, then I shall advertise my book in the most widely read
opposition newspaper *), and in the advertisement I shall call upon all the
church authorities and all the Protestant inhabitants of Saxony, among whom
the enemies of the mission also belong, to take cognizance of the matter and
render their judgment. We live, God be thanked, not in Mecklenburg, but in
Saxony, where one may speak the truth unpunished and uncover rotten
conditions without fear. The churchly mood, or ill-humor, of our people
should prove a strong ally to me in the struggle.'

Things have therefore already come to this, that a man not only seeks to
maintain his evil cause by spreading the most outrageous untruths, but also,
with full consciousness, does not disdain to enter into an alliance with the
'enemies of the mission' and with the 'churchly ill-humor of our people.' My
readers will agree with me that over against this nothing further remains
than simply to be silent and to commit the judgment to the Lord God. The one
word in reply to it could only be a decided Fie!

But although under these circumstances it is impossible for me to subject
Moraht's writing to a thorough examination now, as I earlier intended, I
should nevertheless not like to leave wholly without answer a couple of
points in it which are especially suited to put in a false light the work of
our Missionary Cordes, in whose hands the direction of our East Indian
mission on the spot chiefly lies, and whose pure fidelity, churchly clarity
and practical prudence fill us ever anew with thanks to God. This may at the
same time serve as a sample of the character of the whole writing."

In what follows, the dear Hardeland demonstrates as tellingly as calmly how
Pastor Moraht was made the advocate of Missionary Ochs merely by ignorance of
the earlier course of the affair and by the dishonest account of it that
reached him from Ochs's side, and was thereby led into all sorts of
perversions of the state of the case and of the point in dispute.

Finally Hardeland writes as follows:

"I cannot, however, close without first discharging a duty of friendship
which has long lain upon my heart. In the negotiations hitherto over this
matter there has repeatedly been talk of 'the Lauenburgers' in a way that
could create the appearance as though the Lauenburg territorial church in its
entirety, or at least for the greater part, had broken off its old connection
with our mission and taken the side of the Ochs party. Although as a former
Lauenburger I knew very well how little this is the case, how decidedly on
the contrary not only by the

*) This has since been done.