# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1862_S59
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Church and Contemporary Notes. 59

Published by Nolte and Köhler in Hamburg:

Johann Winckler and the Hamburg Church in His Time (1684–1705), from contemporary, chiefly manuscript sources, by Johannes Geffken, Dr. theol. and preacher at St. Michael's. With Winckler's portrait, a facsimile, and his coat of arms. Large 8vo (28 signatures). Sewn, 2 thalers.

Recently published, and obtainable on commission from Just. Naumann in Leipzig and Dresden:

The Unequal Children of Eve, as God the Lord Addresses Them. Has 19 characters and 5 acts. A comedy by Hans Sachs. With original drawings by C. Andreä, executed in woodcut by A. Gaber.

By report, the editors of this thoroughly German comedy of the old, ingenious Nuremberg shoemaker, carried along by childlike simplicity and fear of God, are Professor Dieckhof of Rostock and Dr. v. Stein of Göttingen. In a notice of this book it is said in the Ev. Kz.: "We have found offensive the coarseness that voices itself in the drama, and the intolerance which puts not only Sadduceeism but also the Catholic Mass and Calvinism into the mouths of the wayward children, taken exception to, and the jesting that runs through the whole — notably where Cain garbles the Lord's Prayer — objected to as coming too near the dignity of prayer; we cannot agree with this, and find in the first two of these objections only the faithful imprint of the honest sixteenth century, while as to the other, Shakespeare, with his psychology, may instruct us — he who allows mankind an ebb and flow of feeling, and lets the most moving scenes of his tragedies alternate with humorous ones. For the production in woodcut, printing, and paper, the artist and the publisher deserve full credit."

Published by Bredt in Leipzig:

Calinich, Gymnasium Teacher Dr. H. J. R., Luther and the Augsburg Confession. An Examination of the Historical Investigations of Rückert and Heppe on the Latter. Prize-crowned essay. Large 8vo, 101 pp., sewn, net ⅓ thaler.

Published by Dörffling and Francke in Leipzig:

Biblical Commentary on the Books of Moses, by Prof. Dr. C. F. Keil, Vol. 1: Genesis and Exodus. Large 8vo, 566 pp., sewn, net 2 thalers 24 groschen.

Published by Justus Naumann in Leipzig and Dresden:

Ernst the Pious, Duke of Gotha. By W. Redenbacher. With his portrait and a view of Friedenstein Castle. Boards, 6 groschen.

Church and Contemporary Notes.

I. America.

The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Illinois. During this synod's meeting last year, a letter arrived from one of its members, Pastor E. Kornbaum, in which the latter spoke "of the unscriptural practice" "that one first licenses and does not ordain at the same time, especially young men whom one knows, such as, for example, our theological students." The synod thereupon declared, according to its own report: "We see no reason to change our practice in this respect." It intends, then, to continue entrusting souls on probation to men whom it does not yet trust so far as to be able to ordain them. That one licenses a shepherd on probation to pasture [the flock] — that