# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1864_S55
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

How and Why Dr. Seyffarth Is So Angry. 55

point, indeed even some degrees below zero, once people finally paid no particular attention even to his thorough proposals for college reform, according to which the students, for instance, were even supposed to have gentle flour-porridge in the morning instead of nerve-wrecking coffee. Put out of temper, wounded, the Doctor of Egyptian antiquities left ungrateful, blind St. Louis and went back to where his worth was better appreciated, to fiery New York. To be sure, the parting was outwardly peaceable; but, but it was soon to show itself what it means to rouse the wrath of the lion — what it means to have provoked an Egyptian doctor and to have him against oneself. —

If ever there was need to confront with all resolve and force the humanistic spirit of the freedom-swindle that sweeps through the whole world, and especially America too, like a pestilential breath out of hell, our own unhappy age demanded it above all — an age in which the devil, the more slavery and murder he has in mind, all the louder and more universally bellows freedom, love, humanism, and felicity in this world — an age in which the devil suddenly turns pious and wants to have even a sin done away with out of the world. The thought that it is, under all circumstances, sin and abomination for one man to be another man's bond-servant, his slave, and that this abominable sin must be blotted out, removed from the land — this thought, this sacred abolitionism, is the highest dogma of the reigning religion of the age, the heartbeat of the American, pious spirit. But God wills that this pious, loving spirit be spat in the teeth, for it is the devil's spirit. God wills that the opposite be “taught and exhorted,” 1 Timothy 6:1f.: “Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, and knows nothing.”

That the Missouri Synod — perhaps, besides the Norwegian, the only one in America — has spoken out clearly and sharply against this American devil's-piety, that it counts hatred, persecution, disgrace, slander as nothing when the truth of Holy Scripture is at stake, that is its glory on the last day before the throne of God. God be praised and glorified that we have men among us who do not yield to the spirit of the age, no politicians who hang their coat according to the wind, no dumb dogs who know how to hold their peace safely through dangerous times. Both our periodicals, the “Lutheraner” as well as “Lehre und Wehre,” have borne unequivocal witness against the abolitionist spirit. The peculiar political circumstances do not belong within the domain of religious and theo—