# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1863_S253
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Church-Historical Notices of the Day. 253

...had given up preaching. In the Advent of last year they came again to Eichhorn, and after a few weeks they were far enough along that they recognized their great sin. On the 12th of March of this year they were received back, on their repentant confession, into the peace of the church. It was a beautiful celebration when Eichhorn held divine service at Bretten on Palm Sunday and administered the Holy Supper. Pastor Haag's wife, with her daughters, attended the celebration herself, no doubt with bitter feelings, since her husband, separated from his own, was staying at a farm three hours away. To be sure, the breach is not yet healed by this, for the people of Söllingen still persist in their separation. They once left the Union together with Ludwig and were then attached to Eichhorn's parish, until Ludwig raised a claim to his Söllingen people and Eichhorn was torn away from them. Now that Ludwig has gone back into the Union, the bitter feeling of the Söllingen people against Eichhorn, as the presumed author of it, has grown sharper. May God heal this breach also, and crown Eichhorn's much-tried faith! His situation is not yet such that he could do without the helping hand of his Lutheran brethren.

Renewed Refusal of Burial in Mecklenburg. Mecklenburg seems to have some stubborn pastors. Although the diet recently resolved that no pastor should refuse anyone church burial who has not first been duly excommunicated in due legal form, Pastor Köhler at Roggendorf near Gadebusch nevertheless dared to refuse church burial to a farmer who was a despiser of the Sacrament. The wife of the deceased did indeed turn to the authorities, but found no hearing. In return, the Mecklenburg "man of enlightenment," who stands at the height of the age, procured satisfaction for himself. Landowners, tenants, farmers, day-laborers, and all the church-going nobodies, as they are called, united to render the last honor to the despiser of both Sacrament and Church, and it is said that so "grand" a burial was never before seen in the parish. Pastor Köhler will not be dismayed by this, even seeing that people in Mecklenburg have aims that are prepared and pursued with noisemaking. Come what may, it comes anyway, and it is better to go to meet the enemy with courage than to capitulate before the battle.

(Münkel's Zeitblatt.)

Hanoverian Pre-Synod. The members present at its opening had to give, into the hands of the royal commissioner, the solemn assurance: "I vow before God that in my work in this assembly I will keep obedience to the divine Word, and, in faithfulness to the faith of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the honor of God and the salvation of souls, unwaveringly before my eyes, and will strive that the Church may grow, in unity of faith and in fellowship of love, toward its own improvement in him who is the Head, Christ." However vague this sworn pledge is, it still takes a strong dose of Jesuitical reservation for the rationalists to take it. But what can these heroes of morality not digest!

Death. On the 13th of May there died the consistorial councillor and general superintendent of the Province of Silesia, Prof. Dr. August Hahn. He was born on the 27th of March, 1792, and in his thirties was professor of theology at Leipzig.

Madagascar. The New Evangelical Church Gazette says, regarding the prospects for Christianity on that island: What now threatens danger to the progress of the Gospel is only the influence which the Jesuit mission, supported by the power of France, exerts with the queen, a zealous Catholic. She has recently handed over to the Jesuits her son — hitherto raised by Mr. Ellis (an English Protestant missionary) — the presumptive heir to the throne, and the king's attachment to the Gospel seems to be founded more on goodwill and affection than on firm conviction.

Baden. The "Pilger" writes: Readers will recall the regrettable separation that was brought about by Pastor Haag's intrusion into the congregations of Pastors Eichhorn and Frommel. After Pastor Haag had had success for a time, and Pastor Eichhorn in particular had lost a large part of his congregation, it seems that the