# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1862_S188
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

188    Church News of the Day.

pastor at Reinhardsgrimma near Dresden, purely objective in a rare manner, and gives what is given "without any judging or embellishing additions." The sources are given with great care. The translation, for all its accuracy, is flowing and pleasant. Later legendary notices and reworkings of the material, found even deep into the Middle Ages among the church fathers and scholastics, are also reported. Naturally, the legendary material of the work cannot claim the same interest as the historical material does; nevertheless it certainly captivates the attention of every Christian to an even higher degree than, for instance, the Lives of the Fathers, which Georg Major once published at Luther's instigation and with his preface. The book should be especially welcome, and of great value, to preachers whose congregations still observe the apostles' feast days. The work may be obtained in America from Schäfer and Koradi in Philadelphia, S.W. corner of Fourth and Wood Streets.

Church News of the Day.

I. America.

The General Synod. The "Lutheran" of May 1 says that for the General Synod two questions are at issue: 1. whether certain doctrines — concerning Baptism, the Holy Supper, confession, Sunday, and the Mass — are actually contained in the Augsburg Confession, since the greatest difference of opinion prevails about this; 2. whether the doctrines contained therein are also true. It holds that the General Synod is not yet prepared for the second question; its task, it says, should first be to settle the first one. This is indeed a testimonium paupertatis [a proof of poverty] that could not be sadder, given that the General Synod calls itself, as is well known, that of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States!

Cunning. The "Evangelist" of April 26 reports the following: In the State of New York there had existed for some years a law providing that Catholic bishops should not hold the property rights of churches, but that each congregation should have its own trustees. This law was made to protect the Catholic congregations — which for some time had been treated harshly by the priests — by keeping their property from being handed over into episcopal hands. But the episcopal party has used the present time of political unrest, when eyes are directed elsewhere, to bring about the repeal of the law, and the week before last the corresponding resolution passed both houses and was signed by the governor.

Abolitionism. We further read the following in the "Evangelist": The American Tract Society in New York has set aside its former caution and abstinence from any testimony against slavery, and has published a booklet entitled: The Enormity of the Slave Trade. So have the times changed.

The Sisters of Mercy, according to the Cincinnati "Wahrheitsfreund" [Friend of Truth] of May 14, are making good use, as the appointed caregivers of the sick soldiers, of the opportunity thereby offered them to make converts for their church, not without success. That paper states, among other things: "Only recently over 900 wounded arrived in Mound City from the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and many have already died of their wounds. We also hear from Mound City the gladdening and — in the midst of the din of war — comforting news that many of the poor soldiers are dying in the true church. Over 200 persons were baptized in the Catholic faith — none of whom had previously received this sacrament