# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S318
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318 Church News of the Day.

The East Ohio Synod, assembled on the 15th–21st of August, has among other things adopted the following resolution: "Whereas Brother Fry has accompanied the report of his irregular conduct with the threat of an uprising in his congregation should the Synod administer a reprimand to him, be it therefore resolved that Brother Fry, in administering baptism by immersion, has grossly violated the specific regulations of this Synod, and that this conduct of his is condemned from the heart, and that he be suspended."

New Church Organ in the South. As we gather from the Luth. Observer, secession has also had the consequence that a new church organ has been founded in the South. It bears the name "The Southern Lutheran," is published in Charleston, S. C., is edited without charge by a committee elected by the Synod of South Carolina and the neighboring states, and is, as far as outward appearance goes, gotten up like the Observer. The price is $2.00 in advance. Subscribers are to address: Mr. Robert G. Chisolm, Charleston, S. C. Dr. Kurtz writes, after examining the first number of August 3: "The theological position of the paper is sound" (poor praise indeed in the mouth of a Dr. Kurtz) "and has our entire approval. We regret only that liberal American Lutheranism has lost so solid a phalanx of helpers through their separation from the Church of the North." The leading editorial articles are from the pen of Dr. J. Bachmann. The discussions of politics that are unavoidable in all the English-language religious periodicals, and that also occur in the Southern Lutheran, Dr. Kurtz naturally condemns decisively, even though Dr. Bachmann, among other things, writes: "This revolution (of the seceded states) is the restoration of the rights guaranteed to us by the Constitution framed by our forefathers." Dr. Kurtz further quotes the following from the Southern Lutheran: "As for the preachers of our southern Lutheran Church, I have not heard of a single one in the southern Confederacy who did not contend for the right to adhere faithfully to this state and this Confederacy — as the government of his choice." Dr. Kurtz himself writes: "We do not doubt, judging both by the spirit of the South and by what we have observed in the paper, that it will be amply supported by the Church in the South and will probably become a source of income for it." He supports this by citing a great many enthusiastically approving replies from Lutheran preachers, particularly in Virginia and North and South Carolina, to the inquiry that had been made regarding a southern paper to be published. Even a Lutheran general synod of the South is in the works.

II. Abroad.

Oberhessen. The (Union) Conference at Friedberg has drawn up an address to the Grand Duke, in which it requests that the church government raise to a legal footing the unionist arrangement already existing in fact in Oberhessen.

M. Ernst Friedrich Höpfner, professor at Leipzig (for a time pastor at Remse in Saxony), died on July 20 of this year.

"Spiritual Stirring and Wrestling on the Baltic Shore." Under this title a tract by Wangemann has recently appeared, from which Dr. Münkel gives an interesting extract in his Neues Zeitblatt for the month of July. In it we read, among other things, the following: "Still more remarkable is the following officially attested incident. A fourteen-year-old girl who tended the geese comes home one evening and delivers powerful penitential sermons to the peasants in High German dialect. She looked, as she did so, like one transfigured, and her father brought her, as a miracle of God, to Seehof, to Herr v. B., where she at once continued her preaching with the tongues of angels. Herr v. B. did not allow himself to be thrown off balance by this; this was, he declared, a matter of complete indifference, since the girl could tell him nothing other than what stands clear and plain in Holy Scripture. At this the girl grew furious, became convulsed, her head was as it were twisted around, foam stood at her mouth, all the limbs of her body were as if broken and dislocated, she poured herself out in the most fearful curses and blasphemies, and among other things ran about on the steep walls of the room without falling down. Only