# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1863_S368
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368 The Dissensions in the Lutheran Church of Prussia.

synod; only P. Clausen and three other members wished not to state their view just yet. With that the treatment of the doctrine of Sunday was concluded. —

From the rich and extensive report we now note only the following: Elected as officers of the synod were: H. A. Preus, President; N. Brandt, Vice-President; J. A. Ottesen and H. A. Preus, Editors. Two delegates were also appointed to our General Synodical Convention and charged to express a heartfelt thanks for all the love and the self-sacrificing support that had been shown to them, both through guidance and strengthening in the pure doctrine and through the training of their students at our educational institutions, together with their [the Norwegian Synod's] joy over our lively interest in the progress of their ecclesiastical fellowship, and that, while they hope for the continuance of the present brotherly relationship between our two synods and their individual members, their heartfelt prayer to God is: that he would further keep us in his truth and give us good fortune and blessing for the continuation of our work and our struggle for the truth.

As the time for next year's synodical convention, the second Wednesday in June (the 8th of June) was set, and as the place, the congregation of the Rev. P. P. M. Brodahl, Perry, Dane Co., Wisc., was chosen.

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(Submitted by Pastor Brunn.)

The Dissensions in the Lutheran Church of Prussia.*)

The ecclesiastical controversies that have broken out for three years now among the separated Lutherans of Prussia, and that have already led to a division of the Breslau Synod, must all the more claim the interest and participation of the entire Lutheran Church, since what presents itself in them is not merely a struggle over local interests, but a struggle over questions of doctrine that reach into the deepest heart and life of our whole church in this present time; questions that are everywhere at present the object of theological and ecclesiastical struggle, and that have penetrated, within the Lutheran Church of Prussia, into the sphere of practical church life and have brought their consequences to bear there. — It should not surprise us, however, that our own time, too, presents to our eyes the picture of manifold struggles and confusions in the field of doctrine. We must not forget that we live in a time when the church, and likewise the

*) In any case it will be of great interest to the readers of our journal to learn how the dear Pastor Brunn — who is in complete agreement in doctrine with our synod, and who labors for it with tireless zeal and great success — judges the state of affairs in the Prussian-Lutheran church. To meet this interest, we are all the more glad to share the present communication herewith, the more important it is for us, at a distance, to hear from one standing in the midst of the waves of the struggle, who holds the standard of pure doctrine in his hands. The Editors.