# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1859_S91
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Bibliographical Appendix.	91

Yet who can cover the sea of truth with a lid? The testimonies against the lie will rise unhindered like mist from the sea. And they will water the parched land, so that it becomes fruitful and grows in good works. For this reason Lutheran clergy of both provinces will gather on the 18th of November in Frankfurt am Main, intending to bear united testimony against this mischief. May God bless it. May many devout hearts lay their intercession for them before the throne of the Most High.

(From the Rudelbach-Guericke Journal.)
Bibliographical Appendix.
Preliminary Notice.

Some time ago I announced, in this journal (No. 2 of 1857, p. 376), Dr. Tilemann Heshusius's booklet "On the Office and Authority of Pastors"; now I must call attention to a larger work by that same old and faithful witness to evangelical truth. A reissue of his now very rare Postil on the Gospels is being prepared, which, God willing, may serve powerfully to advance his kingdom. "The Postil contains sermons on all the Gospels through the whole church year — several for the high feasts — for the apostles' days and the Marian days retained in the Lutheran Church, and sixteen Passion sermons." The undertaking proceeds from a devout lady, Fräulein Amelie von Maltzan of Rostock (daughter of the most celebrated author of the "Christian World History"). It is with heartfelt joy that I answer the wish of the honored promoter of this work, so far as my feeble word avails, to further this most worthy undertaking. A complete copy of the Postil does not indeed lie before me; but already the six sermons that have reached me in manuscript copy, "without any particular selection" (for the first and third Sundays in Advent; the fifth on the birth of Jesus Christ; those for Sexagesima and Palm Sunday — on John 11:1–14 — and for the nineteenth Sunday after Trinity), give sure warrant that we have here to do with a treasure, grown unknown, in the vineyard of Christ. What I already noted regarding Heshusius's "Pastors" is confirmed here as well in the Postil on the Gospels; here we have before us a wholly evangelical man, a preacher in whom the certainty of being able to stand justified before God, and to inherit the kingdom of heaven, solely and alone through faith in Jesus Christ, has so penetrated every vein and nerve that every pulse-beat of his spiritual life, every breath of his whole being and bearing, testifies with the Apostle: I know whom I have believed, and proclaims with Augustine: Si Christum discis, nihil est, si aliud nescis; si Christum nescis, nihil est, si aliud discis. [If you know Christ, it is enough, even if you know nothing else; if you do not know Christ, it profits nothing, even if you know everything else.] It is a very significant phenomenon that women should arrive at an understanding of this resolutely