# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1863_S63
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Church and Contemporary History. 63

work toward our all "speaking one and the same thing, being of one mind and of one judgment," 1 Cor. 1:10. The writer does indeed cry out, in the following issue of January 16: "Consider the first Christians. Were they themselves, in the days of the Apostles, entirely alike in all things? Far from it, as is evident from the disputes among them of which Scripture reports — even between Paul and Peter themselves!" But how so? Would the good Doctor have us believe that doctrinal disputes took place between these Apostles?!

The "Informatorium" of Pastor Grabau appears to have been put into a very ill humor by the so favorable reports which Pastor Brunn has published on the progress of his work, which serves our Synod in brotherly fashion. At any rate its January number occupies itself exclusively with this, and with Brunn's brotherly greeting sent to us, which together, under the heading "A Missourian Game of Dice, Sent from Nassau," is there pilloried as fresh evidence, according to its deserts, of the modern Missourian democratic-pietistic-unionistic spirit. It is only a pity that the whole critique consists of empty phrases and unproven assumptions, and thereby has only spoiled paper that is now so dear.

The Gospel Which American Preachers Proclaim. We learn of this from a sermon of Dr. Hay's, from which the Iowa church paper quotes the following: "Let us for one moment call to mind the time when this war shall be ended and slavery, its great cause, shall have been abolished. What then?

A prospect opens before us that dazzles us wholly by its splendor! We shall be one people! And when some years shall have passed, and time shall have calmed the violence of the storm now raging, then we shall be, more truly than ever before, one people. Then the constitutional rights of every citizen will be honored everywhere, and one need not possess a prophetic eye to behold the era of abundant good fortune that will then arise.

We Pennsylvanians can already see in spirit the thousands who will climb into our mines and crowd around our smelting furnaces and hammer-works, to win the iron for building new railroads, in a vast territory then thrown open to the enterprising spirit and industry of the North; to work the iron into machines for the thousands of factories that will rise up everywhere beside the lovely, fully cultivated cotton and sugar plantations of the liberated South. Our coal will be carried there as the great driving power that brings life and activity into those places of inventive industry, and which spreads an inland trade over more than a thousand streams the like of which the world has never seen; and our petroleum, that inestimable, ever-flowing spring of prosperity for our glorious State, will be exported by us to enlighten the South and all the rest of mankind!

When this war shall have done its sorrowful work, and its wholesome results come to light, the whole land will renew itself — and above all that very region which hitherto, to its own harm, clung fast to that ruinous curse of slavery.

The traveler who goes down the Ohio will no longer see that strange contrast of prosperity and plenty on his right hand and decay and neglect on his left. The same prosperity that has made so fine a garden out of Ohio will then flourish in Kentucky. Freedom of speech and of the press will then be found in South Carolina as in Massachusetts," etc. We can well imagine how popular preachers are who proclaim such a gospel; but we also see plainly from this that such preachers are blind leaders of the blind, and we can only say: God have mercy on the congregations that have such preachers, and on the preachers who find a hearing with such a gospel.