# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1864_S282
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

282 Literary Notices.

shows the fruits to which we ought to attend; he alone is worthy that we grant him respect and trust." We have scarcely read anything more perverse on this subject. — The third sermon deals with the oath. This sermon lacks all specifically Christian content. It proceeds from the "saying of the ancients": "Once forsworn, forever lost." The sermon closes with an enumeration of the curses which the perjurer brings upon himself, without containing even a single word about how even one fallen so deep might still obtain grace and be saved. The most confirmed rationalist will acknowledge this sermon as flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones. We can only pity a congregation to which such fare is set before. And after this sermon, where are all the preachers to go who have broken their ordination oath, where all the people who have broken their baptismal vow? We very much doubt that the author would thank the editor for the selection made, if he knew of it—especially since, as the editor himself reports, the former "has always, with great firmness and modesty, declined the request, often and earnestly addressed to him, to publish a selection of his pulpit addresses."

Just published:

Holy Baptism. By Ph. Fr. Mader, Pastor in Nice. Leipzig, published by Teubner. 1864. 156 pp. 18 silver groschen. — Of this Dr. Münkel gives the following notice: So even in Nice, under a southern sky, where all sorts of faiths lie jumbled together in the midst of a Catholic environment, a testimony to the Lutheran doctrine of Baptism, written with theological expertise and practical skill, an intelligent answer to many clever objections. To indicate also the book's own standpoint: it holds that regeneration in Baptism takes place through the Word, and indeed in such a way that the Word, both before and after Baptism, is preparatory to regeneration, developing, nourishing, and furthering it. Regeneration thus proceeds from the Word alone, but from the Word in Baptism. The book is not meant to be scholarly, but to do justice to all thoughtful readers, and it is, moreover, written very simply and intelligibly.

Recently begun publication in Wollin:

Immanuel. A Lutheran People's Paper, primarily for Wollin and its surroundings, edited by Pastor Zöller in Wollin, appearing every fourteen days on a half-sheet quarto. Quarterly subscription price, when sent by post, 5 silver groschen. The paper is meant not only, in the first place, to bring "news of the course of the Prussian doctrinal controversy, but chiefly, through instruction from God's Word and the confessional writings of the Lutheran Church, to bear witness to the truth and combat false doctrine."