# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1864_S53
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How and Why Dr. Seyffarth Is So Angry. 53

...surrender himself wholly to a common death. As to censure (in polemicis), it is useful (to know) this: first, against the Papists. For among them it is even permitted to bishops to pass from the altar to arms . . . second, against the Calvinists, who allow the servants of the church the same liberty. Of Zwingli I have already spoken.*) In that very same battle, sixteen other servants of the church were killed along with him. In our own century, in the year [16]21, at the siege of Montauban, Chamier (a man of great renown among the Huguenots, who served as pastor at Montauban), although covered by a protecting wall, was torn to pieces by a cannonball; the bold man had come to that place armed for battle, in an iron breastplate and with a javelin in hand, in order to instill courage in the soldiers, as Grammond reports, L. 10, p. 501. Nor does Voetius venture to defend such deeds otherwise (Polit. Eccles., Part I, lib. 4, p. 370) than by saying that they did not do this as usurpers of political power, but as religious men who respected that power — namely, as private subjects and servants of their princes or authorities, to whose leadership and authority they rendered obedience, indeed even did service on their part as good citizens when so bidden, insofar as, in their judgment, this obedience did not conflict with God and a good conscience. But this they did, apart from the case of necessity, of their own free will, as history attests, and therefore, by reason of a concern with matters not their own, contrary to the rule stated above.” (Theol. positivo-polem., P. II, Loc. 19, aphorism 19, p. 554 sq.)

(Submitted.)

How and Why Dr. Seyffarth Is So Angry.

Professor Seyffarth, as is well known, had no particular luck in Germany; he was, to be sure, prolific enough at book-making, but his ungrateful fellow Germans refused to grasp what a light had thereby dawned upon them. The professor was obliged to complain that his splendid treasures, reduced to waste paper, were devoured by moths and mice, and were carted off by unfeeling shop clerks, as a hindersome ballast, into the remotest corners of the warehouses. Weary of Europe, he therefore left an ungrateful fatherland, and sought, as the great unknown, his fortune on the youthful shores of the New World. And behold, Fortune was kind to him! Wonderfully, here, here in the land of material interests, where one might expect only judgment and appreciation of Indian corn and pork, here the man so long cruelly misjudged came to recognition — to glorious recognition! — As if in a single night, with a single glance, Dr. Stohlmann in particular had looked clean through all of Seyffarth's works, discerned their depths, taken the measure of their heights, their breadths and lengths

*) He appeared even at the Colloquy of Marburg in a black coat of arms and a gun at his belt. Unschuldige Nachrichten, 1709, p. 808.