# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1863_S129
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume IX.    May 1863.    No. 5.

(Submitted by Pastor Röbbelen.)

What Do the Apostles Say, and What Does Christ the Lord Say,
About Our Catechism Controversy?
(Continuation and Conclusion.)

II. Love and Peace.

The author of those 11 points in No. 163, which aimed at a vindication of the
"new catechism," has been accused from two sides of not having spoken in
accordance with love and peace (see No. 166 and 168). He replies that we
would have neither a Reformation nor Christianity if human considerations of
love and peace were decisive in matters of truth. He can as little see any
impropriety in refuting, in a fitting manner, the contradiction that has
arisen from the camp of ecclesiastical indifferentism against Luther's
catechism, as he finds it unjust to give fitting name to a power which, down
to our own day, wherever it has been permitted, has persecuted the Gospel in
its confessors — often, as in Tuscany, even in those who merely read it.

III. Is It True That Luther's Catechism Stands in Contradiction
to God's Word? *)

This question I should like to put before all readers of the Hildesheim
General Gazette, and to address in particular to the third opponent, who in
No. 172 attacks my defense of the above-named little book. He writes in the
passage cited: "it" (Luther's catechism) "will have to be altered, insofar as
the Church discovers a contradiction in it with God's Word. This
contradiction, however, does exist, as has been demonstrated in the recent
theological writings of Upper Consistorial Councilor Meyer, of Church
Councilor Schenkel, and of other professors, and as everyone knows who has
occupied himself even superficially with the most recent research in the
exegetical field."

Although the esteemed author adds: "One will excuse me from setting this
forth further here," I cannot, in the interest of the dear

*) This article was not accepted by the Hildesheim General Gazette.