# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1861_S211
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Some Matters Concerning the Division within the Leipzig Mission. 211

'simply' to be decided as Mr. Schütze, teacher, supposes. Among faithful
Christians here at home, and among zealous missionaries abroad constrained by
the love of Christ, there will be differing opinions on this point; even
among the English missionaries this is the case (as one out of their own
midst in the Tamil country, Missionary Callwell, has quite recently
testified). Opponents of caste we, the members of the Leipzig Mission, truly
are no less than any Englishman; the dispute is about the manner of that
opposition. Would that it were a contest in the love of Christ! The perverse
thing is only when those who go more softly and slowly on the one side, and
those who hurry more quickly and energetically on the other, bite and devour
one another instead of bearing with and completing one another. However, I do
not intend here to write a treatise on the caste question, which in its time
gave me trouble enough. I will only bear witness to my personal position
toward the Mission Collegium in this question. And here I declare:

1. that my departure from Leipzig had not the least thing to do with the
caste dispute among our missionaries, or with any division between my
then colleague Dr. Graul and myself over the caste matter;

2. that the "Ordinance" of the Mission Collegium and its whole procedure with
regard to caste would not hinder me myself from serving as a missionary
in the mission in the Tamil country that stands under its direction; as I
indeed not only most decidedly dissuaded my friend Missionary Wendlandt
from leaving our mission, but also urgently begged him to enter the
mission church council.

For a series of facts on account of which Mr. Schütze, teacher, accuses the
Mission Collegium, I bear the responsibility together with Dr. Graul. I here
expressly meet the accusation regarding the sending out of Missionary
Stählin. This accusation concerns me especially, since it was I who had to
hold the exegetical exercises with the mission candidates. Never would I have
given my assent to the commissioning of Missionary Stählin without having
gained the conviction that he would preach and teach the Gospel in accord
with the confession of our Church, according to the wisdom of our Lutheran
Catechism, after the manner of St. Paul: "I determined not to know anything
among you save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." Had the question been put to
Missionary Stählin: "Do you hold Jesus' death not to be an atoning death, but
merely a death of attestation?" — he would, of this I am certain, have given
an answer that would have put Mr. Schütze, teacher, to shame. The charge that
Stählin "expressed his error in a sermon which he preached in the presence of
Missionaries Schwarz and Appelt" is — as has been communicated to me from a
reliable quarter — to be traced back to this, that in a sermon in which the