# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1863_S192
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192 Church and Contemporary History.

catechism, is Luther's great catechism?" — This is certainly a comfort, but to be sure a sad
one, which reminds the believing preachers of Hanover how wrong it was that they did not
earlier open the people's eyes concerning the territorial catechism, but instead only interpreted
it favorably in a unionistic manner. Our reason often seems to suggest that it would be better
not to kindle that fire of which the Lord himself says that he wished nothing more than that it
were already burning, Luke 12:49; but it is always better to endanger peace through the
ruthless exposure and combating of all that is false than to try to save the truth by glossing
over what is wrong. In the end it becomes evident that through such caution neither peace nor
truth is preserved, but both are lost.

Calvin. In Geneva a proposal was raised through the Evangelical Alliance to erect a
monument to Calvin by the 300th anniversary of his death (1564). The Reformed Church, for
its part, raised objections on account of the second commandment. It is therefore now
proposed instead to mark the year with a complete edition of Calvin's writings.

Statistics of the Jesuit Order. According to an official list dated June 11 of last
year and drawn up by the General of the Jesuits, the total number of members of the Jesuit
order is said currently to stand at 37,920. This number is distributed among the individual
countries as follows: Italy 8,350, Austria 5,621, Russia 3,432, Great Britain 5,219, Germany
1,412, France 7,420, Belgium 1,711, Switzerland 652, the rest of the world together 4,112.
The Evangelical Sunday Messenger, which reports this notice, adds: "Such figures can open
the eyes of the unconcerned."

Filler Stones.

"Whoever does not know how to live without crumbs and alms, nor by
plunder, and to do without everything for a sword, is not fit for the service
of truth. Let him early become a sensible, useful, well-mannered man in
the world, or else learn to make bows and lick plates: then he is safe his
whole life long from hunger and thirst, from gallows and wheel." Hamann,
Socratic Memorabilia. Works, vol. II, p. 49f.

"Our reason is exactly what Paul calls the law — and the commandment
of reason is holy, righteous, and good. But is it given to us to make us
wise? Just as little as the law of the Jews was given to make them
righteous; rather, it was given to convict us of the opposite, of how
unreasonable our reason is, and that our errors are meant to increase
through it, just as sin increased through the law." The same, I, 405.

"He who believes another's reason more than his own ceases to be a
human being, and takes first rank among the servum pecus [servile herd]
of imitators. Even the greatest human genius should be too poor a thing
for us to do that." The same, Letter to Kant. I, 438.

"Whoever can explain a mote of sunlight holds the riddle of the whole
of nature." The same, I, 119.

"It is of no consequence what, or how much, children and we human
beings know in general; but everything depends on how." The same, I, 158.