# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1861_S379
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Church and Contemporary Notices. 379

...on the caste question," and in it names, in particular, some of the chief causes from which the confusion and uncertainty prevailing here and there on the whole question is partly explained.

At A. Oehmigke's in Neuruppin there appeared:

A Brief Answer to the "Provisional Defense" of the Privy Councillor of Justice and Prof. Dr. E. Huschke, by J. Diedrich. 1861. (61 pages.)

An Open Letter to Dr. Huschke in Defense against His "Provisional Defense," by Th. Crome, pastor at Rade vorm Wald. 1861. (70 pages.)

At Wiegandt and Grieben's in Berlin there has just appeared:

Tholuck, The Church Life of the Seventeenth Century. Vol. I. 1 Thaler, 18 Groschen.

At Justus Naumann's there has just appeared:

A Little Book of Confession and the Lord's Supper, drawn from the writings of Dr. M. Luther. Bound, price only 9 Groschen. One free copy for every twelve ordered.

By the same publisher:

Luther's Staff from God's Word, for the Pilgrimage through All the Days of the Year. Bound in gilt edges, 12 Groschen.

At Trowitzsch and Son's in Frankfurt an der Oder:

The Life of Andreas Musculus, General Superintendent of the Mark Brandenburg, etc. A Contribution to the History of the Reformation and of Morals in the Sixteenth Century, by Ch. W. Spieker, Professor of Theology at Frankfurt an der Oder. 24 sheets, large octavo. With the portrait and a facsimile of Musculus. Price 1 Thaler.

Church and Contemporary Notices.

I. America.

Periodicals. Since October 31, the Pittsburgh Missionary and the Philadelphia Lutheran have appeared united under the title "The Lutheran and Missionary," in splendid format, at Philadelphia. The editor-in-chief is Rev. Chas. P. Krauth, and the co-editor Rev. W. A. Passavant. May God grant his grace to this undertaking, and may the paper serve the work that was once begun on its very birthday (October 31) and that brought a time of visitation upon Christendom in which we too still live. The editors state their position as follows: 1. We are not Old Lutherans. 2. And yet we are Old Lutherans. 3. We are American Lutherans. 4. And yet we are not American Lutherans. One might, at a pinch, be willing to put up with the working-out of these oxymorons. But what is one to make of this: "We erect no sectarian hedge around our pulpits, no bolt before our communion table, nor any refusal of the sweet pledges of Christian brotherhood, that would exclude anyone who sincerely loves our Lord Jesus." That is plainly the song of a unionist bird! The paper comes out weekly and costs, paid in advance, $1.50; postnumerando, $2.00.

Important Corrections! In the Philadelphia "Sendbote des Ev." (Messenger of the Gospel) (for the month of November), a German Anabaptist paper, an Anabaptist makes himself busy with allegedly necessary improvements to Luther's translation of the Bible. It is claimed to be false...