# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1862_S60
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60 Church and Contemporary Notes.

may pass, that one does that with a shepherd of men is an irresponsible recklessness. Whom one cannot ordain with a good conscience, him one should also not license. With souls there is no jesting. When the Apostle writes: "Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins" [1 Tim. 5:22], then those act just as much against this who license the untested as those who ordain them; for it is not for the sake of the hands that one becomes partaker of other men's sins when one ordains unfit subjects, but for the sake of the souls that are entrusted to them and whom they neglect and lead astray.

Dr. Brownson. This well-known, much-celebrated American Papist man of letters has come forward in his Review with a doctrine that undermines the eternity of the punishments of hell. The "Wahrheitsfreund für kath. Leben, etc." in Cincinnati has therefore taken up the fight against him. Among other things, the issue of December 19 of last year contains a good critique of Brownson's theory.

Father Passaglia. However highly this Italian theologian's work on the "Immaculate Conception" was once celebrated as a classic masterpiece, so much the more miserable is now judged the same author's tract "Pro causa italica" (for the Italian cause), in which he contends against the necessity of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope and for the unity of Italy. The "Wahrheitsfreund" reports: "From the papers that were seized in his dwelling, it emerges that he had long been in correspondence with Cavour and Lord Russell concerning the manner of robbing the Pope of his temporal sovereignty."

Chiliastic Geography. In the "Zeichen der Zeit" a map is being offered for sale, described as follows: "Prophetic Map of Turkey and the Adjoining Countries, a Contribution to the Solution of the Oriental Question." It is supposed to represent geographically the change that must, according to the prophecy, come upon the Orient, and at the same time to contribute to answering the ever more pressing question of what is to become of present-day Turkey. The map comprises 7 realms: the Holy Land, Assyria, Armenia, Egypt (and Africa), the Greek Empire, the Realm of the Lower Danube, and Italy. The alleged justification for this division is appended in special marginal notes.

Revolution and New Belief. In the American Botschafter for the month of January we read in an article headed "Why We Wage War" the following: "That peoples have a right to change their civil government, and that there is accordingly also a right of revolution, is nowadays fairly generally conceded." It is indeed strange that a paper which claims to represent precisely the general-Christian standpoint should lend its voice to such a new, unbiblical, spirit-of-the-age principle. Incidentally, the paper, with curious inconsistency, nonetheless declares itself against the right of the South to secession. To be sure, it adds for that very reason: "But this right, like every other, must be justified by morality" — which, however, is a restriction by means of a petitio principii.

What the False Doctrine of the Ministry Brought Forth as Fruit. To the editor of the Lutheran Kirchenbote, a former student of the Gettysburg Seminary — formerly a preacher within the Lutheran Church, now a catechist of the Episcopal Church — writes the following: "Furthermore, it would not be pleasant to me if anyone could so much as think that I had ever approved, even for a few months, the doctrine of Church and Ministry newly invented (sic!) by Prof. Walther. I have indeed, for a short time, given way on a few points in the doctrine of the Church (which I heartily regret), but never in the doctrine of the Ministry. As to the latter, I only asked for time to consider. But it never occurred to me to doubt the correctness of the Buffalo view" (to be sure, the Buffalo doctrine is only a view) "— rather, it became clear to me in the time I had asked for that I had to go one step further and accept the view" (to be sure, the doctrine of the Episcopalians too is only a "view") "of the Episcopal Church, which I have accordingly also done." (See Kirchenbote of the third of January.) The "further step" that this gentleman