# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1859_S223
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Gleanings from Reading. 223

to increase his party; just as he also permitted the Landgrave of Hesse to
take a second wife alongside his still-living wife." — Thus it reads. And
beneath this stand, as an aid for the teacher, the questions: "Who was
the author of the falling-away from the Church in the sixteenth century?
What sort of man was he? By what means did he begin his struggle
against the Church? Did he stop there? How did he then behave toward
the Pope? What innovations did he introduce? What did he permit to
monks and nuns? What to princes and lords? Was his conduct edifying?
Did he teach the pure Word of God? Name me some of his errors! What
reception did his teaching find among the common people and among the
great? How did Luther show himself compliant toward the Landgrave of
Hesse?" — Is there not almost a lie or a distortion of the truth in nearly
every sentence? And how might it sound at times when spoken aloud! —
The Protestant Supreme Consistory has naturally not let this pass
unchallenged. Representations were accordingly made in higher places,
"to give the objectionable passages a different wording." After four
years of waiting one now learns: "that corresponding arrangements have
now been made to remove, for the future, the passages which, in their
wording, might give occasion for a disturbance of church peace." — So it
stands in the Erlangen Journal for Protestantism and Church (of October
1858). It thus remains to be seen whether and how it is removed. But
what of what already stands written on the "fleshly tables of the heart"?
— Preserve us, Lord, by your Word, and curb the murderous rage of
pope and Turk! K.          (Pilger.)

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Gleanings from Reading.
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Böhner says in the preface to his work on Christianity and
Materialism: "When Mr. Büchner, in the first edition of his 'Force and
Matter,' already triumphs in advance that people of materialistic
outlook will soon form the majority and improve the world according to
their dogma; when he even hurls the curse of 'narrow-mindedness' at
the head of every scholar who dares to be of a different opinion than his
own — then we must leave judgment on such passionate outbursts to
others, since we are not concerned here in the least with persons and
insults. We permit ourselves to cite only one actual fact to illustrate such
logic. In an insane asylum at Leyden, a patient explained to a visiting
stranger, in a very obliging manner, the suitable arrangements of the
institution. To the stranger's question, 'What business, then, do you
have, sir, in this house?' the patient replied ironically, with sparkling
eyes: 'I am insane.' — When the stranger then looked at him in
astonishment, the patient added haughtily: 'Unfortunately, men of my
talent still form the minority in the world at present, but I tell you, as
soon as we form the majority