# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1862_S186
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186    Literary Announcements.

writing prove. "As for the manner in particular," he says on p. 118, "in which Pastor Münkel has conducted his case, I gladly acknowledge that he, although not a man of scholarship, has nevertheless judged in a fairer way than Dr. Hengstenberg and Dr. Dieckhoff." This much, then, he grants — though he ought to have said even more, namely, that they showed him the utmost possible forbearance and gentleness. But how has he taken this? If the harshness and bitterness of his tone toward others could be partly explained by the severity of their judgment, then such a mitigating ground falls away here. For he goes on to say: "But he too concludes with the result of my apostasy. There is one thing which I wish to impress emphatically upon Pastor Münkel in his capacity as advocate of the Christian people. I did not write my Dogmatics for the people, but for theologians. For the people, the form alone is already as good as Latin. I cannot imagine that Pastor Münkel, who styles himself Doctor of Theology, understands so little of theology as not to know that there are difficulties which must be discussed. Naturally, such investigations are not for the people. But who, then, brings them before the people? Papers such as Pastor Münkel writes. I can give him documentary proof of what such articles as his about me work among laypeople" (namely, enlightenment, and indignation at the secret doctrine of the theologians [John 3:20], by which they shake the future ministers of the church and teachers of the people in their faith). "He, then, this middleman between scholarship and the people, who belongs properly to neither circle, he confuses the people, not I. If Pastor Münkel cannot bear the heights, where avalanches and boulders" (of false doctrine) "fall, then let him stay in the Lüneburg Heath" (it should read: the Weser marshes) "among the heath-sheep, keep bees, and grow asparagus. To take a piece of writing that is thoroughly positive in character, sum up all its questionable points, and then set them before the many who understand nothing of the matter as a light snack — that is, not to speak of Christianity at all, contrary to everything in me that is generis masculini [of the masculine sex]. I advise Pastor Münkel not to turn the vigilante tribunal he has set up under his village oak into a Vehmic court. There is still, in the German land, cut and ring to the sword of the Spirit!" I understand the threat, and, after the sample given above, do not fear it; but, to speak in Kahnis's own words against Dieckhoff, "I am ashamed, as a theologian, that a theologian against a theologian" (he need not take offense that a simple village pastor counts himself among their number), "a Lutheran" (or one who wishes to be counted as such) "can strike up this tone against a fellow Lutheran."

The Linsen bookshop in Ratzeburg announces an unchanged and complete reprint of the following work:

The Lower Saxon Church Order of the Year 1585. The edition is to cost 2 thalers (2 thalers 20 groschen on better paper). The announcement states: "The Lower Saxon Church Order is perhaps the only