# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S317
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Church News of the Day. 317

scholarship has accomplished has long since been published by him in special essays; while everything else in this opus posthumum (Bleek died in 1859) merely reproduces the well-known results of rationalistic criticism of the Old Testament, results that are to be found developed and compiled far more acutely, ingeniously, thoroughly, tastefully, and completely in De Wette's textbook of Old Testament introduction."

Published by C. H. Reclam in Leipzig, to appear at the Michaelmas Fair:

The Clergyman's Oversight of the Public School, according to the principles of German school law and the demands of pedagogy. A Contribution to Pastoral Prudence, by K. Kirsch, licentiate of theology and archpriest, etc. 2nd ed., approx. 16 sheets, large octavo.

Church News of the Day.

I. America.

H. W. Beecher. That this well-known Congregationalist abolitionist speechmaker in Brooklyn is not to be counted among the believing preachers was, to be sure, long since known to all who know Christian doctrine at all and are able to distinguish spirits even a little. But after this phrase-hero recently published, in his paper The Independent, a sermon in which he polemicizes, in a vulgar-rationalistic manner, against the doctrine of justification by faith and of the atonement of the world of sinners through Christ's vicarious suffering, death, and shedding of blood, he has now lost his Christian mask even in the eyes of those who have hitherto always taken him for a great Christian orator.

Subscription Drive. It is truly amusing to see what ever-new means the Americans know how to devise for increasing the subscriptions to their publications. An example of this is given, among others, by the "Fröhliche Botschafter" ("Cheerful Messenger") in Dayton, Ohio, an organ of the "United Brethren in Christ." This paper offers all new subscribers that it will be supplied to them free of charge from the time their subscriptions are sent in until January 1, 1862. The paper itself says that this liberality may be a riddle to many, but that another paper had, by such a ruse, secured 5,000 new subscribers within the space of a month not long ago. The Luth. Observer offers every new subscriber a book worth half a dollar as a "premium."

Buffalo. Some time ago a couple of mendacious articles against our synod appeared in the unionist "Hausfreund" and in the "Lutheran" (!?) "Herold." Neither article was worth our taking notice of. That Buffalo, however, would try to make capital out of them we expected with certainty. For the poor, consumptive historical Zeitblatt and Informatorium, such articles, which give them fresh material for another good wash, are true stars in a dark night. As expected, so it happened. While, incidentally, the historical Zeitblatt still shows some remnant of conscience in that it at least qualifies the soundness of its conclusions with the addition "if it is true," the Informatorium, on the other hand, takes "of course" everything that a man who went out from us, and who is fairly bursting with pride, has written against us, as well-grounded truth, and then builds upon it its own hair-raising conclusions. Now that the unfortunate Buffalo party, both in America and in Germany, has gone bankrupt despite all the sacrifices it has made to procure itself adherents and patrons, one may well grant it such a small consolation.