# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1863_S147
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Something about Those Who Have Seceded from the Breslau Supreme Church Council. 147

arose, as a punishment of sin on both sides. For the one who rules is exposed to exceedingly many hardships and endless dangers; the one who obeys is led by another's will, and neither of the two passes his life without the bitterest troubles — rather, each of the two suffers the deserved penalties of divine justice. Hence Scripture, after the Flood, records the first servant, Gen. 9:25, where Noah says to him: Cursed be Canaan, and let him be a servant of servants to his brethren. On which passage Ambrose, in the book on Elijah and Fasting, chapter 5, has written: "Today there would be no servitude, had there been no drunkenness." Hence God himself afterward gave laws, in order by them to determine the duties of servants in the Hebrew commonwealth, Exod. 21 ff., under which laws the condition of our own servants is far more tolerable. And from this we conclude that servitude, too, is a state pleasing to God and ordained by himself, in which each may live as well as possible and render what is pleasing to God, although it lacks not many hardships, which arise partly from the fact that our nature is not born to servile duty, partly because pride and arrogance are innate in most men, whereas it is for the most part far easier to serve than to rule, especially when one has to do with clumsy and malicious people. For which reason we read repeated apostolic admonitions concerning servants, Eph. 6:5; Col. 3:22; 1 Tim. 6:6; 1 Pet. 2:18, etc." (Notable Questions on the Epistles to the Philippians and Colossians, drawn up by F. Balduinus. Disputation 8. Michael Reichard. pp. 5–7.)

Something about Those Who Have Seceded from the Breslau Supreme Church Council.

Concerning these we read in the Freimund of January 22: "That people, on this side too, want the holy principle of order, facts have proved. In Magdeburg some seceded pastors held a visitation on the Sunday after Michaelmas; in Liegnitz the examination of a candidate was held, the congregation duly called him as assistant preacher, and the pastor, with the assistance of brother clergy, ordained and installed him. Church order, then, is the same here as there. But the doctrine concerning it is different. In a discussion which followed upon that visitation in Magdeburg, people expressed themselves on the matter in the following way. Congregations do not arise through the arbitrary coming-together of individuals; rather, God's truth, in its course through the world, brings souls together. That same truth of God also creates the manner — the one that is fitting and serviceable — of their common life, that is,