# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1864_S24
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24 Church and Contemporary History.

having expressed his heartfelt longing for peace, he first defends Pastor Diedrich against the reproaches made against him, and then discusses the synodical resolutions, and especially the Oberkirchencollegium established by them. — These Crumbs are written with spirit and life, and we wish them many readers; for they are well suited to help the seeker attain clarity concerning our church controversy.

In Erlangen has just appeared:

The Martyr Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Slovaks, in the Year of the Thousandth Jubilee of Its Founding, related historically by Lic. Theol. Johannes Borbis. Erlangen, 1863. Price 12¼ groschen. (The net proceeds are designated for the teaching institutions newly to be founded among the evangelical Slovaks.)

On this the Pilger makes the following remarks:

With reference back to what has already earlier, and especially in the last number, been reported concerning the Lutheran Slovaks, the Pilger would like to point his readers to the little book named above. In it, the author, so zealously concerned for the cause of his suffering people, has made the content of an earlier, more extensive work accessible to wider circles, in order thereby to awaken the hearts of Lutheran Christendom to works of love for this people. The little book not only makes known, in generally understandable language, the origin and the older and more recent history of the Slovaks, as well as the church history of Hungary in general — which is indeed very desirable as proof of their need of help — but it also lets us take a look into the edifying life of faith of this gravely endangered people, and shows us how this life of faith has proved itself, and still proves itself, in church and home, in the customs and sufferings of the people. A musical supplement even gives a sample of Slovak folk song, in which even today the memory of the Apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, lives on. — May the heartfelt love of the author for his people, to which this little book also bears witness, be rewarded by its finding quite numerous purchasers, and by its encouraging sustained prayer and giving for the poor Slovaks.

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Church and Contemporary History.

1. America.

The "Lutheran Synod of Illinois," according to the Lutheran Kirchenbote of Nov. 20 of last year, held its eighteenth annual convention in October of last year, and on this occasion drafted and adopted a new constitution, according to which it now confesses "unreservedly" to the Augsburg Confession. That is very gratifying. But what business, then, does the Illinois Synod have in the General Synod with its qualified confession of that symbol? Or does the former nevertheless not accept, for example, the conclusion of the 10th Article of the Augustana: "Et improbant secus docentes" ("Wherefore we also reject the contrary teaching")?

An attempt to make a nominally Lutheran congregation Presbyterian. Of such an attempt a correspondent of the "Lutheran Church-