# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1863_S53
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A New Homiletical Monthly. 53

not his to judge. The purity of their wishes is their own affair in this; no one has a right to pass judgment on it. But when they claim to act for the sole honor of the Lord of the church, one asks, with just astonishment, what indeed they can mean by that? Who then is this Lord of the church? Is it that Unknown One whom they laid as a foundation at the unknown place? In what humanly possible sense do they call him — him! — the Lord of the church, and presumably their own lord as well? Is he not true God, begotten of the Father in eternity, and also true man, born of the Virgin Mary, seated at the right hand of God the almighty Father — then he plainly cannot be the Lord of the church. Nor can one, without the sin of idolatry, give him any honor if he is not worthy to receive praise and honor. What can they mean? Do they not know what they are saying? Or do they say what they do not know?

But he will come and take his honor for himself, for he is the judge of the living and the dead — and also of the conference at Celle.

Note from the editor. Against the Celle conference a vigorous protest has already appeared. Pastor Seveker of Achelriede (Osnabrück) has issued a broadsheet with the title: "What do those want who met in Celle over the Catechism? An open letter to Superintendent Dr. th. Gruner in Osnabrück." It scourges the hypocrisy with which Bible and confessions have hitherto been handled, which the Celle conference now uses to lead the poor people astray.

Baurschmidt has declared, in the Jeetzel-Zeitung no. 88, that it was established in Celle that "Holy Scripture alone, and it alone, should serve as the rule of faith and doctrine, and not the symbolical books." He is very displeased with the editorial commission, which, in the publication cited above, reproduced the sense of the conference quite falsely. The kingdom, then, is divided against itself; whether it is so in substance as well may be doubted. Baurschmidt is presumably only troubled that the sheepskin of Holy Scripture has not been drawn more tightly around the conference. For what he himself thinks of Holy Scripture is shown by his own pamphlet, "Prove All Things." Holy Scripture is to him a rule of faith only insofar as his own understanding is the rule of Holy Scripture. But that the editorial commission went its own way is shown by the fact that the retired Hanoverian Luther was escorted to his resting place very swiftly, with a few censers of incense."

(Contributed by Prof. Bauer.)
A New "Homiletical Monthly"
has appeared, containing "Evangelical Testimonies from the German Churches in America, edited by Dr. Philip Schaff." Published by J. Kohler, Philadelphia, Pa.