# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1863_S318
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

318                              Church and Contemporary History.

...the holy Sacrament publicly, and likewise to use the wretched new hymnal — which he himself, though outvoted, nevertheless adopted. For many years he had been preparing for a withdrawal from the so-called territorial church, and had for that purpose been steadily collecting money. For years he had given the holy Sacrament to his adherents in his own house after private confession had taken place; they were also instructed to sing in church, to the melody of the hymn copied out of the new hymnal, a Christian hymn out of the old one, and thus at the same time to sing faith and unbelief to one and the same melody. After the souls had been led into the greatest anguish, they were thereby [illegible] held [on a rein?], on the pretext that the state of the church conflict did not yet permit a separation, and that [illegible] more people must first be awakened. So he left those souls stuck in what he himself had taught to be a sin, and demanded that they remain in it, in obedience, for as long as he judged it necessary. — After I had questioned Pastor Horning about these matters and received no answer, I promised those souls that I would receive them here in Jabel to the holy Sacrament, because they had first of all asked me for this; for the time being, at least, they did not wish to attach themselves to the pastors in Baden, though I hoped this would happen later, and I did my part toward that end as well. But the people's journey was made impossible not only by a serious illness — a woman also wished to see her child baptized by me and asked me very urgently for this (she did, admittedly, die before it happened, and her child was baptized by Pastor H.). On that occasion, then — and so not "in haste" — I traveled to St. and did not go into Pastor H.'s congregation, but administered the holy Sacrament to those who had separated from his congregation in a perfectly orderly manner, just as some of them had previously come over to him from other local congregations as well. For in France there are, namely, no such parishes and no such parish rights as here in Germany."

Roman Church. On the occasion of the 300th-anniversary commemoration of the Tridentine Council, the Roman bishop of Trent issued a pastoral letter in May of this year, in which, among other things, it reads as follows:

"After Martin Luther, to satisfy his passions, had raised the banner of rebellion against the Church of Jesus Christ, the most depraved people of all Europe soon gathered around him. Their ranks were increased little by little by others whom they had seduced, who then likewise became traitors. There was no lack of powerful princes who let themselves be seduced by the freedom which those men promised; unfortunately there was also no lack of corrupted members of the sanctuary who led those legions. Therefore, emboldened by outward protection and equipped with false learning, they undertook the work of laying waste the vineyard of Jesus Christ. They took possession of a great part of Germany, of Switzerland, France, England, and other realms, and everywhere they kindled that fire which in our own day is not yet extinguished. What harm those godless men did in the world is easier to bewail with hot tears than to describe in words. We will say nothing of the civil wars, the devastations, the weakening of monarchies and kingdoms, the disturbance of the peace, harmony, and quiet of families; we will report nothing of the barbarism which they, so far as it lay in their power, reintroduced into the world; but it is certain that they dealt countless souls a mortal wound, tore the seamless garment of Jesus Christ, trampled the blood of the Redeemer underfoot, and robbed exceedingly many souls of heaven in order to plunge them into the abyss of hell." After it is then mentioned that the Catholic Church opposed the false doctrines only with "the balm of her love," it goes on to say: "Our city at that time saw the pitched battle, saw the heroes equipped with invincible strength who fought there; it took them in within its walls, gave them shelter, and was the first to greet their victory with jubilant applause. This was one of the most sublime spectacles the world has ever seen, one that deserves to be made known to the most distant posterity. On the one side there arrayed themselves, armed with sophistries, all the errors which, beginning with Simon Magus, had fought against the Church. The blasphemies of an Arius, a Sabellius, an Apollinaris, a Nestorius, a Eutyches, and other similar monsters were, in a different way,