# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1862_S91
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Literary Notices.    91

scattered among the English, send their children, when things go well, to the schools of the Methodists or Baptists, where along with the English language they also take up false doctrines, and even in the city there are many Germans who are no longer German and do not consider it at all necessary to hold fast to the German language and the faith of their fathers. Among the devout Germans, however, chiliasm and enthusiastic sectarianism and unionism are very widespread, and only a few still hold to the dear confession of the Lutheran Church and know how to value sound faith. Formerly the very small Lutheran town congregation was visited monthly by neighboring Lutheran brother pastors, which, however, was in part not carried out adequately, in part did not seem important enough to the majority. Many also regard the Lutheran Church as a sect, in which the members of the Lutheran territorial churches are not given their due right, but are first received into it and then, quite possibly, excluded again; and for the sake of these things — in which one may perhaps at times have proceeded too harshly — very many have kept their distance and have in this way become spiritually derelict.

The worst thing here is that everything which, apart from the Moravians, speaks German also calls itself Lutheran and yet at the same time sets itself in hostility toward us. At present two Württemberg clergymen are eagerly occupied in trying to bring about a union between us and them and between our congregations and theirs; we, however, cannot regard any union with their doctrines as possible, and shall be on our guard against giving up what is good and taking on what is evil."

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Literary Notices.

There has recently appeared from the Sebald publishing house in Nuremberg:

The Church, Its Office, Its Government. Foundational theses with continual reference to the symbolical books of the Lutheran Church, by Dr. Th. Harnack, ordinary professor of theology at Erlangen. Large octavo, stitched, 16 groschen.

Published by Gustav Schlawitz in Berlin:

The Faith of the Fathers in the Holy Adornment of Hymns. 24 hymns of the church with marginal illustrations by J. v. B. To appear in eight installments at 22½ groschen each (Chinese paper at 1 thaler). The first installment, with the illustrations for "How Shall I Receive Thee," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," and "We All Believe in One True God," has just appeared.

This is a work of art concerning which the Ev. Kz. u. A. reports the following: love for the hymns of our church has moved an artistically highly gifted lady to surround, for her own edification, the most beautiful and poetically richest of them with flowers and arabesques, and, amid these, with fitting