# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1862_S252
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Church and Contemporary Affairs. 252

in the body, does not know where to stay clear of misfortune." Prov. 27:15:
"Three things drive a man from his house: smoke, a leaking roof, and
a quarrelsome wife." 2 Cor. 6:15: "The Lord Christ and Belial stand
never in one stall." Gal. 6:7: "God is no Bavarian; he does not let
himself be mocked." Eccl. 1:2: "All is vanity, except the money in
the purse."

From G. Schlawitz in Berlin has appeared:

Dr. M. Luther, the German Man. A little book for German schools
and the German people, by C. Becker, Lutheran pastor. With 12 woodcuts
after Gerg von Galer. 1861. Pp. 98. 7½ silver groschen.

Dr. Münkel reviews the little book with the following words: The main
chapters from Luther's life and the Reformation, told plainly and rightly,
and well suited for use in schools, for which the woodcuts are a welcome
addition.

Church and Contemporary Affairs.

I. America.

Dr. D. Hunger, hitherto a member of the southern district of the Ohio
Synod, has submitted to the latter the request for an honorable discharge,
"since he," as it is put in the synodical report, "must acknowledge the
doctrines of the Lutheran Church as not in accord with the apostolic
Church, and therefore false, and can, for conscience's sake, no longer be
a member of the same." Mr. Hunger had already for some time been at odds
with Lutheran doctrine, and, together with others of his Ohio brethren,
inclined toward the popery-leaning doctrine of Buffalo, in the course of
which he even went so far as to assert that ordination carries a surer
divine mandate than baptism itself. Nonetheless he supposed himself, along
with his like-minded associates in the motley Ohio Synod, to be a good,
indeed the true, Lutheran. Now the man seems to have stepped out of this
fog, but only to have fallen into all the greater darkness. Perhaps there
is now more hope for one so deeply fallen than for the hypocrites who,
while holding thoroughly unlutheran doctrine, pretend to be the best of
Lutherans and, under Luther's name, condemn true Lutheranism.

The Synod of Wisconsin. In the "Luth. Kirchenbote" of the 18th of
July we read the following in a letter, there reprinted, from Pastor
Bading, a member of the Synod of Wisconsin: "It was high time that
Watertown was visited by our Synod. On the one side reigned Methodist
spirit-mongering, on the other rigoristic exclusivity of the" (Missourian)
"Old Lutherans, and in the middle stood my unworthy predecessor Sans — so
that the poor hungry souls did not know where to turn." — According to Mr.
Bading's judgment, then, a preacher of the Missouri Synod offers the souls
no bread of life; the congregation of such a preacher consists, in his
view, of nothing but factions; wherever Missourians preach, there the
souls are like sheep having no shepherd, and must languish! He and his
fellows therefore implore the Christian people in Germany to send them
money and men, so that they may wrest the souls away from the Missourian
preachers, souls that would otherwise be lost under them. This is how
these gentlemen operate: the Missourians they accuse again and again of
unchristian exclusivity on account of their inflexible adherence to
Lutheran doctrine and practice, while they themselves deny that a hungry
soul could satisfy its hunger among the Missourian preachers at all,
asserting that this is possible only among themselves. But could there be
a more offensive exclusivity than this? The slander appears all the more
abominable when one knows how the congregational leadership of such
gentlemen is actually conducted. There a laxity in doctrine and discipline
prevails, such that precisely