# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1862_S122
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

122    Church News of the Day.

2. that we ask the honorable editorship to continue further along the path already entered upon, since, as experience teaches, it is the only one on which our church here in this land is truly benefited.

3. that we hereby request the editor of the "Luth. Zeitschrift," the Rev. Pastor Brobst, since he has printed the said accusation against us, now also to print the response of our editor, composed with "gentleness and mildness," in the preface to the current volume of "Lehre und Wehre," "because important truths are stated therein in Christian love, without coarseness and bitterness."

4. Resolved, that the secretary shall send these resolutions to the editorship of "Lehre und Wehre" as well as to Mr. Brobst for publication.

The Special Conference of the Counties of Perry and Cape Girardeau.

In their name
E. Riedel, Secr.

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Church News of the Day.

I. America.

Chicago. The Reformed "Evangelist" writes in its number of March 8: "On February 20 a second German united Evangelical Lutheran congregation was founded in the southwestern part of the city. It belongs to the United Synod of the Northwest. The word 'Reformed' is omitted from this. This is a peculiar union." — The Evangelist rightly wonders at this dishonest title. For indeed one cannot very well unite with oneself. The name of such a "united" congregation therefore presupposes that it has united with those of a different faith, namely with the Reformed, who ought fairly to be named along with it, but presumably are not named for reasons of policy, so that simple-minded Lutherans may be made to believe that the congregation, though united with the Reformed, is nonetheless Lutheran. — For the rest, the Reformed "Evangelist" ought nonetheless to be content with this, for the Reformed themselves do something similar with God's Word. Just as those Unionists speak of union and yet, for policy's sake, name only one element, so God's Word speaks of two united elements, of which the Reformed, out of rational conceit, believe only one. The apostle Paul says namely: "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?" 1 Cor. 10:16. And yet the Reformed believe and teach that the blessed cup and the broken bread are not united with the body and blood of Christ present in heaven, but are nothing but bread and wine; while the Papists, as is well known, hold fast to the opposite error and maintain that by the communion of the body and blood of Christ only body and blood are to be understood. The Lutherans, on the other hand, hold to the Word and believe and teach that both are there and united with one another: bread and Christ's body, wine and Christ's blood.

The Mercersburg Review. Concerning this the "Evangelist," the organ of the German Evangelical Reformed Church of the United States, reports as follows: "This well-known periodical has, as we hear, ceased publication, after having gone through a series of changes. Our church is now entirely without a scholarly periodical."
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