# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1862_S148
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148 From the Grand Duchy of Baden.

have served only to establish this agreement yet more firmly. It is therefore not natural science itself, but only its false interpretation, that has come into conflict with a world-view faithful to revelation. I would, however, most urgently advise theologians not to let themselves be led astray by the geological theories of the moment; they will do best if, unconcerned about the results the natural scientists claim to have found, they continue on their own way, resting upon the firm prophetic word, which alone can guarantee the correct interpretation of the Mosaic account of creation.

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(From the Pilger from Saxony.)
From the Grand Duchy of Baden.
February 1862.

Some weeks ago we reported on the new church constitution of the united Baden territorial church. Readers of the Pilger will doubtless wish to hear more of the movements that have since arisen within that territorial church. These have been brought about chiefly by the elections to the General Synod, which are in part already over and in part still in progress. On the whole they revealed an ugly picture of unchurchly partisan striving. In many places, especially in the towns, things went exactly as they are wont to go at provincial or municipal elections in our own country. Canvassing, defamation, endorsements, and printed ballots placed in the voters' hands were the order of the day; electoral intrigues were settled in the public press. Out of this chaos there speaks to us, on the whole, a friendly and gratifying "Declaration" by two citizens of Heidelberg, the bookseller C. Winter and the merchant M. Werner, in which they make public the reasons why they will not take part in the church elections; and we share it here as a hopeful sign of our times:

"To the honorable Evangelical Church Council of the city of Heidelberg:

In consequence of the summons to take part in the elections of the church-congregation assembly, as ordered by the new church constitution, we feel obliged to declare the following, with all due respect: however welcome and gratifying the magnanimous decision of our universally revered sovereign — in restoring to our united Church the long-withheld yet inalienable right to administer its own affairs — has appeared to every friend of our united Church, all the more must we regret that this decision, in the new church constitution,