# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1859_S160
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160 Church and Contemporary History.

unionist. The faithful confessors of the Lutheran church, by contrast, are mocked openly and in secret. In a word, here too the members of Antichrist are drawing together. The watchword runs: Lutheranism and Union—in truth the matter at issue is Christ and Belial. The consequences of this state of affairs have not failed to appear. Some dozen strictly Lutheran clergy have run headlong, wholly and entirely, into the bitterness of the Prussian separatists. Recently it has happened at the Leipzig Mission House that all the students had to be dismissed because they no longer wished to receive the Holy Supper from Leipzig pastors—not even from Ahlfeld!—but solely from Prussian separatists. Pastor R. in L., editor of the "Pilger," and Pastor S. in T.*) stand close, very close, to a separated Saxon-Lutheran church, just as Löhe in Bavaria once thought of setting up a Lutheran separatism.

Concerning Lic. Lämmer's conversion in Berlin to the Roman church, the Evangelical Church Gazette gives some information by reporting that he sprang from a mixed marriage and owed the religious impressions he received chiefly to his decidedly Catholic mother.

Feldner, the Elberfeld pastor who went over from the united church to the Lutheran, has since the beginning of this year been publishing a periodical under the title: The Lutheran Church Messenger from the Rhineland. It is to comprise ten numbers yearly. The price is 12½ silver groschen for the year.

The Lutheran missionaries of the Leipzig Mission in India performed 76 baptisms of converted heathen in the year 1858.

In the "Neues Zeitblatt," etc., published by Münkel, we read with pleasure a vindication of the withdrawal of the former missionary, Mr. Schöneberg, now a Lutheran pastor in Lafayette, Indiana, from the Rhenish Mission, written by the Lutheran pastor Parisius at Cape Town, the sum of which is that a Lutheran conscious of his churchly right and his churchly duty cannot live within the Union, or within a unionist mission society.

The Correspondence Gazette for Home Missions in the Sense of the Lutheran Church, after reprinting from the "Lutheraner" the trial of Pastor Seidenbecher on account of his alleged Chiliasm, makes some remarks upon it from which it is evident into what conflicts the defenders of Chiliasm fall with themselves. The paper speaks of its respect for the age and the theologians of the seventeenth century; of the faithful zeal of that age, with which men watched over the purity of doctrine; of the wisdom and fatherly gentleness which, as was thought, was shown toward the one who had erred. Nonetheless the paper sees in that man a martyr for a simple truth clearly recognized from God's Word. Were the latter the case, that "faithful earnestness" would have to appear to us as a zeal beyond all measure, that "wisdom and gentleness" at best as an unconscious hypocrisy. On how uncertain a footing the Correspondence Gazette stands is betrayed at last by the fact that it declares Chiliasm—which it nevertheless calls a truth clearly recognized from God's Word—to be an open question.

England. From recent reports we learn that the bill permitting marriage with the sister of one's deceased wife has been rejected in the House of Lords of the English Parliament.

Bohemia. The number of all Lutherans in Bohemia amounted at the close of the year 1857 to 12,822 souls.

Errata in the previous number.

Page 116, line 2 from the top, read instead of: Gesetzes [of the law]—Geistes [of the spirit].

*) P. Kühle in Lausa, and Siedel in Tharand.