# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1862_S245
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Literary Notices. 245

confidently to carry out. May he also bless all his other work from on high
with much edification of the hearers entrusted to him, and his person in all
prosperous well-being! Attested, etc.

Leipzig, the 31st of March, a. 1708.

(See Selected Theological Opinions of the Theological Faculty at Leipzig.
Published by Börner. Leipzig, 1751. Pp. 411–416.)

Literary Notices.

From the publishing house of Th. Bläsing in Erlangen there has just appeared:
Luther's Theology, with Special Reference to His Doctrine of Reconciliation
and Redemption. By Dr. Theod. Harnack, ordinary professor of theology
at Erlangen. First part. Large octavo. Paperbound.
From Bredt in Leipzig has appeared:
History of My Discharge from Office. A Contribution to the Question of
Christian Liberty. Documented and communicated by Chr. W. Vollert. 1862.
The author of this little work was, until the close of last year, pastor at
Clodra in the Duchy of Weimar. Already in an earlier number of this
journal we reported on the entanglements into which the aforementioned man
had fallen with his ecclesiastical superiors. In the present little work there
lies before us, from his own hand, a documentary account of the matter,
containing the writings of accusation and of defense. Dr. Münkel has
devoted a fuller notice to the work in his Neues Zeitblatt of the 30th of May,
which contains much that is instructive, and which we therefore communicate
here. Dr. Münkel writes in it as follows:
Vollert entered office around 1850 and has thus stood at his congregation
for about 12 years. Of his labors in office we learn little more than that he
was diligent in conducting his office according to strictly Lutheran
principles and concerned himself especially with the restoration of church
discipline, or the exercise of the power of the keys. It does not appear that
he proceeded very strictly in this last point. He was content when sinners
declared their sincere repentance, and in the whole 12 years found occasion
only twice to turn persons away from the Holy Supper who indeed deserved
it by right. Nor was complaint ever brought against his practice of
discipline before the authorities. So he might have gone on working quite
well in quiet, and remained unchallenged to this day, had it been possible
for him to confine himself to his office.
But near Clodra, in the town of Greiz, some awakened souls fell out with
their pastor, because he taught false rationalistic doctrine and had had the
same printed in a catechism for the schools. Since no removal of this
offense could be obtained, the awakened followed Luther's word and shunned
the false prophet, from whose hands they henceforth would no longer receive
the sacrament. Besides this it was