# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1863_S377
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Literary Notices. 377

...still contended without great result, and in the present year at Berlin, where the result is yet to be expected, but by all indications is likely to be a happier one. It does not seem to be hoped, indeed, according to human reckoning, that a reunion could ever again be reached with the most extreme members who seceded from the Diedrich party. How a breach that has once penetrated so deeply into the innermost heart and life could ever be healed again — that seems, by human reckoning, scarcely conceivable. Wounds will remain there that never heal over. It therefore seems scarcely possible that our Lutheran church in Germany, separated from the state, can escape the sad fate of a fragmentation into several synods dissenting from one another. In the Breslau Synod itself, at this moment, after the secession of the Diedrich extreme, both parties are still represented in equal strength. How the further course of the struggle will unfold is hard to say. The present shape of the Breslau church order will, if only for the sake of its bureaucratic, juristic, and impractical form, in no case endure for long. On that point there should be but one opinion among all. Just as little does it seem to be expected that the one-sided overstraining of the doctrine of church government, as it has been asserted in Breslau, will ever attain to a quiet and undisturbed dominance in the synod; too many are convinced of the un-Lutheran character of this doctrine, and their voice will never be brought to silence. To what extent it will succeed, by God's grace, after the overcoming of all error, in uniting in the confession of the pure and full truth — that must be committed to the Lord. Yet the history of the church at all times testifies that truth has come forth victorious from every struggle; why then should we not also now hope for it, confidently and joyfully?

"The cause and honor, Lord Jesus Christ,
Are not ours, but thine indeed."

Literary Notices.

From Dörffling and Franke in Leipzig, the following has this year appeared or is now in press:

Huschke, E., Privy Councillor of Justice, Doctor both of Law and of Theology, The Disputed Doctrines concerning the Church, the Ministry, Church Government, and the Church Orders, discussed according to Holy Scripture, church doctrine, and the symbols of the Lutheran Church, with special regard to the doctrinal controversies over this matter that have broken out in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Prussia (about 24 sheets).

From the same publisher there has just appeared:

Luthardt, Prof. Dr. Chr. Ernst, The Doctrine of the Free Will and Its Relation to Grace, presented in its historical development. Large octavo. (XII and 470 pp.) bound, net 2 Thaler 12 Groschen.