# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1863_S257
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume IX.    September 1863.    No. 9.

Some Remarks on a New Apology for the Reformed Church.

In the Reformed Erlangen Kirchenzeitung there recently appeared an essay with the heading: "Why We Are Not Lutheran, but Reformed?" from the pen of the Licentiate of Theology and pastor of the Reformed congregation at Duisburg on the Rhine, E. W. Krummacher. This essay seems to have found particular favor with the editor of the "Evangelist" of Cleveland, Ohio, an "organ of the German Evangelical-Reformed Church of the United States," so that he included it in the aforementioned paper of July 18th. Since the essay has set itself the special task of pointing out the defects that our Evangelical Lutheran Church is supposed to have in comparison with the Reformed Church, it may not be out of order for us to permit ourselves some corrective marginal remarks on the complete text of the same.

The essay begins with the words:

"First" (we are not Lutheran but Reformed), "because the Lutheran Church has not broken with Rome entirely in doctrine, while the Reformed Church has broken with it completely and fully."

Marginal remarks: Since the Licentiate understands by Rome not so much the papacy as the Roman Church, we can willingly grant him that the Lutheran Church has indeed "not broken entirely" with the Roman Church in doctrine. We do not count this, however, among the defects of our Church, but among its merits — whereas we count the radical break of the Reformed Church with the Roman Church as part of the apostasy from the truth of which the Reformed Church has made itself guilty to a great extent. It is indeed a device now just as often used, and never failing of its effect among the present-day so-called Protestants, to set up a doctrine or a practice without further ado as a papal leaven simply by saying, not: this is against the clear Scripture, but: this is Roman. But Luther already gave the Anabaptists and the Sacramentarians, who employed the same device, the right