# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1863_S310
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310 Church and Contemporary History.

From Dörffling & Franke in Leipzig there has just appeared:

Der Unterricht der Anfänger im Christenthum nach Augustin's Anweisung [The Instruction of Beginners in Christianity, after Augustine's Method], in a German translation by D. Th. Ficker. With a preface, introduction, and notes by Prof. D. v. Zezschwitz. Large octavo, bound. 12 new groschen.

From the Agency of the Rauhes Haus (Hamburg) there has appeared:

Balthasar Schuppe. A Contribution to the History of Christian Life in the First Half of the 17th Century. By E. Oelze, Pastor at Kripplein Christi in Fraustadt.

Recently there has appeared, and may be obtained from the author:

Lebensbeschreibungen oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Schriften aller evangelisch-lutherischen Prediger [Biographical Sketches, or Notices of the Life and Writings of All Evangelical Lutheran Ministers], who since the time of Dr. Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg have served congregations in the state of Pennsylvania or still serve them, likewise of those who have found their charge in other states, but have stood and still stand in connection with the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Pennsylvania; compiled by J. C. Schierenbeck, Evangelical Lutheran minister in New Castle, Lawrence Co., Pa. First Number. Selinsgrove, 1863. These "Biographical Sketches" appear in unscheduled numbers of 32 pages each and contain on average 50—70 biographical sketches of Evangelical Lutheran ministers of the past and present. The whole work will consist of 10—12 numbers. The subscription price for each number is 25 cents, payable on receipt of the number. The size of the edition of the 2nd number, and of the whole work, will be determined by the number of steady subscribers and promoters of this first number. Until further notice, notices of this kind are to be addressed directly to me.

J. H. C. Schierenbeck.

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Church and Contemporary History.

I. America.

The Iowa Synod. In the May number of Pastor Löhe's "Kirchliche Mittheilungen" there is a letter from Prof. S. Fritschel in Wartburg, Iowa, in which he describes, in a manner that awakens pity, the sad effect that the present war is having especially on the financial position of the Iowa Synod. It says there, among other things: "If the congregations can scarcely provide for their own most pressing needs, they naturally can do still less for general purposes. Never was the support of the seminary so meager as now. The income of the past year amounted to barely two-thirds of that of the year 1860, that is, the year before the outbreak of the war, although the number of our congregations and pastors has increased by more than a fourth since then, and the congregations of that time now for the most part count almost twice as many members. Without help from without, it is, humanly speaking, hardly possible that we should come through this hard time." One sees from this that the war must weigh especially heavily upon Iowa. To be sure, one of their pastors up to now, of whom they relate that he and his congregation have experienced guerrilla raids, is in Missouri; but we know of him that he, of all people, asks for no money-support from Germany.— In a preceding report on the Iowa Synod Pastor Löhe writes: "It has, with unbelievable exertion, indeed with a spirit of enterprise more than bold, and with equally great self-denial and self-sacrifice, fought its way and believed its way through every difficulty,