# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1859_S64
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64 Contemporary Church History.

of an unbelieving prince — then it becomes known what it would so
gladly hide, that it belongs to the things which the world loves, John
15:19; many a sleeping conscience then wakes up which would otherwise
have gone on dreaming. But an orthodox church has nothing less to fear
than the wrath of the great and mighty of this world, for there applies
what the Lord says: "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I
might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared in all
the earth." Romans 9:17. How the unbelievers are already exulting, we
learned in these days from a local political newspaper, to which the
following was written from Berlin under date of December 29 of last
year: "A special Christmas joy was given to the country by the Minister
of the Interior, in that he removed Professor Hengstenberg from the
scientific examination commission. Behind this name stands the whole
army of the '"Evangelical Church Gazette."' The triumvirate
Stahl-Leo-Hengstenberg is thereby jointly struck, together with the
various general superintendents and their following. Candidates will no
longer fail the examination if they cannot describe the inner
arrangement of Noah's ark. How even churchly, piously minded men judge
Hengstenberg's position is shown by Bunsen's pronouncement, made some
time ago already, that it is incomprehensible and inexplicable that a
man like Hengstenberg could be an examiner. His removal is, to be sure,
only a victory of common sense, but as such all the more to be
celebrated, after it had been so long lacking. Hengstenberg's fall is a
signpost for the whole party, which at least will now do no one any more
harm."

The followers of Christoph Hoffmann seem rather discouraged by the
report of the 3 scouts who, sent out by the Society for the Gathering of
God's People in Jerusalem, have returned; yet they by no means wish to
give up their fanatical activity, as they declared at a meeting in
Cannstadt.

Christian Art. Prelate von Genäösen, in association with Schnaase in
Berlin and Schnorr in Dresden, is bringing out, beginning in October, a
"Christian Art Journal." It is to comprise descriptions of important
older and newer works of architecture, sculpture, and painting,
biographies of Christian artists, designs and woodcuts of Christian
buildings, city and country churches, altars, vessels, images,
crucifixes, etc.

Baden. Here, as reported to the "Kirchenfreund," a new liturgy
[Agende] has been introduced. In form it approaches the ancient
ecclesiastical liturgy; in substance it is unionistic. It meets with much
opposition, not so much because of its unionistic tendency, but because
it appears too orthodox and churchly to the crowd accustomed to
rationalism. This too a death-sentence upon Union!

In the French province of Algiers in Africa there are now 6 Protestant
preachers who preach the Gospel (which one? we confess we do not know)
in the German language. At Hippo, where Augustine was bishop, there is a
pastor who studied at Halle under Tholuck.

Schmid and Ebrard have, as is known, declared themselves in favor of
Hofmann and against Philippi. Ströbel writes of their apologies: "One
thing cannot be denied: through the polemic against Philippi, as it
appears in our three writings (including the Hofmann one), there runs an
ever more strongly swelling rationalistic undertone." How could it be
otherwise, where one attacks a clear doctrine of Scripture belonging to
the analogy of faith!