# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1864_S134
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134 The League of the Sister Churches.

81. Coelibatus absolute et in se bonum opus non est. (Gerh.) — Celibacy is not, absolutely and in itself, a good work.

The unmarried state is not, simply and in itself, a good work.

82. Coelibatus non nisi in personis idoneis probandus est. (Gerh.) — Celibacy is to be approved only in persons suited to it.

The unmarried state is to be approved only in persons fitted for it.

83. Vota coelibatus, ut nunquam a Deo mandata, ita ἐθελοθρησκεία, imo impia et stulta sunt. (Wandalinus.) — Vows of celibacy, as never commanded by God, are thus a self-chosen worship (ἐθελοθρησκεία), indeed impious and foolish.

The vows of celibacy, as they were never commanded by God, are accordingly a self-chosen form of worship, indeed godless and foolish.

84. Quod male juratur, pejus servatur. (Wandalinus.) — What is sworn wrongly is kept still worse.

What is sinfully sworn is kept still more sinfully.

85. Non ex pedibus viri mulier formata, ne scabellum pedum ab ipso habeatur; nec ex capite est formata, ne imperium in virum illi concedatur; sed ex latere h. e. ex vicinia cordis sumta est, ut vir eam diligat tanquam corporis sui partem et ejusdem naturae consortem. (Gerh.) — Woman was not formed from the feet of man, lest she be regarded by him as a footstool; nor was she formed from his head, lest dominion over the man be granted to her; but she was taken from his side, that is, from the vicinity of his heart, so that the man might love her as a part of his own body and a partner of the same nature.

The woman is not formed from the man's feet, so that she should not be held by him to be his footstool; neither is she formed from his head, so that dominion over the man should not be granted to her; but from his side, that is, from the vicinity of his heart, she has been taken, so that the man should love her as a part of his own body and as a fellow-partaker of his nature.

(To be continued.)

(Submitted by Prof. Fleischmann.)

The League of the Sister Churches,

proposed in a church newspaper, with the motto:

"A thaler is equal to thirty silver groschen. So the Roman church is equal to the Lutheran; the Lutheran equal to the Reformed; the Reformed equal to the Greek Catholic, etc."

A widely circulated organ of the United church of Germany, the well-known evangelical church newspaper of Hengstenberg — which had already, here and there in the past, let a not-unclear flirtation with the Catholic church be noticed, a thing that must have pained a Lutheran to the soul — contains, in the October number of last year, No. 79, a second article which, in discussing a book written by Dietlein entitled "Evangelical Ave Maria," expresses itself on the Catholicizing tendency. This article concludes — although in what precedes it denies to the Catholic church the right preaching, the right confession, and the right doctrine of justification and of sin — remarkably enough, as follows:

"If we are to draw the conclusion, it can be no other than this: to the Catholic church there also belongs the evangelical; or one may equally say the reverse: to the evangelical church there also belongs the Catholic. The Roman Catholic church is a sister of the Wittenberg-Catholic church; the papal church cannot do without the Lutheran, and the—