# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1861_S241
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The Union and the Lutheran Church in Bremerhaven. 241

of an encouragement to occupy oneself with chemistry and agriculture as proof
of a perverse tendency in theology. There is among us, God be thanked,
just now a powerful consciousness that the times
are serious enough to admonish us to devote all our zeal to the study of those branches of learning
that lie nearest to us as theologians — little as it would occur to us
to deny the usefulness of the specialized studies cited by Dr. H. for our calling as well; and truly
the question how we shall one day stand toward the so much reviled divine truth
must lie nearer our hearts at the university than the effort
to train ourselves into capable farmers and medical advisers for congregations.

So far our testimony concerning what Dr. H. has said of the students
of theology and their relation to the professors. We
leave the decision on this to everyone who knows the conditions of our
university. Whether Dr. H. will likewise take this to be an outflow of hypocritical
disposition cannot trouble us, although we are
conscious that the reproach of hypocrisy is precisely the gravest
that can be brought against a theologian at all, and one for which its author
may answer before his conscience! Us at any rate Dr. H. shall not
deter from entrusting ourselves with renewed love to the men whose faithfulness
toward God's Word, whose pure sense for true scholarship, whose devoted
love we have already sufficiently experienced. May God preserve them to us! —"

This manly confession, which must be a fine guarantee for the future of our
territorial church, has found manifold and also publicly perceptible
echo. It has in this way come to light that
Dr. Heyner has by no means estimated highly enough
that part of the Saxon population which in his
opinion follows the "ministry-of-worship tendency." (Pilger a. S.)

The Union and the Lutheran Church in Bremerhaven.

From the newspapers many a reader will already have learned that the
"sect which is everywhere spoken against" has lately again been declared under the ban of the empire in Bremerhaven
by the Bremen senate. About
half a hundred Lutheran citizens here declared to the senate on December 6, 1860
their withdrawal from the united state church here and their
intention of forming out of their own means a Lutheran congregation of their own.
To this the senate replied that such a withdrawal was an impossibility,
"since the Lutherans of Bremerhaven, even as such, are subject to the united congregational
body."

But in order to survey the situation, one must look more closely at the formation of the
Union here in this place. Bremerhaven is, as is well