# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1861_S378
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378 Literary Notices.

...to the further exposition of the content, to exemplification and application, etc., and then talk the relevant section through together. You will certainly find, too, that the hours of fellowship pass all too quickly this way, that you will be reluctant to part from one another, and very glad to come together again, and that with God's help, which will not fail, you will have a great, rich, and lasting blessing. —

Literary Notices.

A most interesting biography has recently appeared under the following title:

Carl Johann Philipp Spitta. A Life, by Dr. theol. K. K. Münkel. Leipzig, 1861.

At Dörffling and Franke's in Leipzig there has just appeared:

The Position of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig on the East Indian Caste Question. A Communication from the Mission College, addressed first of all to the voting members of the societies. Published by the Evangelical Lutheran Mission. 10 Groschen.

The tract falls into three sections. The first sets forth "the guiding views and principles of the Mission College regarding the nature and treatment of caste," specifically in the following eight subdivisions: 1) The caste system involves a characteristically civil element. 2) Caste and religion are, to be sure, inseparably bound together for the heathen Indian; but the residue of caste among Indian Christians is purely civil. 3) Even this purely civil residue of caste is, among our Indian Christians, differently constituted, inwardly and outwardly, than among the heathen. 4) Nevertheless, not insignificant abuses are still bound up with caste. 5) We strive, together with the English, toward the abolition of the evils of caste, but do not agree as to the means by which this goal is to be reached. 6) We agree with our Lutheran predecessors as to goal and means. 7) We also agree with our Lutheran predecessors regarding the particular question of native ordinands, from whom we demand, above all, faithfulness in office toward all without distinction of caste. 8) We are by no means alone in holding our principles in the handling of the caste question. — The second section contains "the individual measures and ordinances of the Mission College for regulating the practice of our missionaries on the point of caste," in which it considers first "the earliest beginnings of the caste controversy from without," then "the outbreak of the caste controversy within the bosom of our own mission," and finally "the period after the withdrawal of the missionaries who would not submit to our ordinances." — In the third section, finally, some "concluding remarks for the correct assessment of the position of the Mission College...