# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1862_S58
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58 Literary Notices.

To prescribe and to carry out are far apart from each other, and experience will show that much of this order's substance would have to change, some of it remaining with the authorities alone." *) (Luther's Works, Erlangen ed., LVI, 170, 171.)

Heartily as we therefore agree with Dr. Kliefoth in this, that it would be a dangerous thing and altogether contrary to Luther's mind to annul the right of church government still belonging to the princes in Germany at this time, and to constitute the church, as it now stands, on collegialist principles — so much the more do we regret that Dr. Kliefoth himself breaks the staff over these genuinely Lutheran principles. Luther did not do so. He indeed had a principle which presupposes congregations sound in the faith, and he did not apply it to congregations in which not everyone bows before God's Word and the church's confession; rather, here, where life and practice were at stake, he let love govern according to the maxim: Salus populi suprema lex esto (let the welfare of the people be the highest law). The principle itself, however, he did not let become suspect to him merely because it could not be applied, but held fast to it nonetheless until his death.

Literary Notices.

Published by Beck in Nördlingen:

My Suspension in the Year 1860. Eight Weeks from the Life of a Territorial-Church Pastor. By Wilhelm Löhe. 1862. IV and 48 pp. Price 8 groschen or 27 kreuzer.

Published by A. W. Unger in Königsberg:

Ebrard, Dr. Joh. Heinr. Aug., Faith in Holy Scripture and the Findings of Natural Science. For Educated Readers. 8vo, sewn, 10 silver groschen.

The publisher says in his announcement: "In the form of an exchange of letters between two friends it is shown that the history of creation and other passages of Holy Scripture do not stand in contradiction to the findings of natural science."

*) Incidentally, it had already been determined in the Homberg reformation order that several arrangements — for example, the congregational assemblies for purposes of church government, the election of church officers by the congregation, and the like — should first come into force once the congregations had matured to the necessary understanding for them. Thus it states there, for example, in No. 63: "We ordain that in every parish, once the Word of the Lord has been preached there for some time, a gathering of the believers shall be held every Sunday, either immediately after the Lord's Supper or after the meal, at a suitable place, at which all men who mean well by the service of Christ and who belong to the number of the saints shall take part, in order to settle together with the bishop, on the ground of the Word of God, everything that is properly to be transacted in the parish." (See Philip the Magnanimous's Hessian Church Reformation Order. Edited by Credner. Gießen, 1852, p. 76.) One sees from this how the thought which Luther had expressed in the work cited above, the German Mass, etc., of the year 1526 (to which the Homberg reformation order expressly refers) was there put into practical execution.