# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1859_S331
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The Buffalonians Once More on Our Catechism. 331

It is true that to us, who have eighteen hundred years of the history of the Christian Church behind us, who still have the Jewish people before our eyes, who know of conversions of Jews from every age and land, who see how God still today keeps his covenant with Israel — to us this no longer appears as so great a mystery, no more than does the wickedness of the Antichrist revealed to us through the Reformation. But if we place ourselves in the soul of the Roman Gentile Christians to whom Paul wrote, it will soon become clear to us that what the apostle foretold them of Israel's continuance and entrance into the kingdom of Christ up to the Last Day had to be an unexpected, great, and wondrous mystery, since they could not have suspected that the people of the Jews, while all the other peoples of antiquity vanished, would remain — still less that some out of it would always come to believe.

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The Buffalonians Once More on Our Catechism.
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In the second number of the previous volume of our "Lutheraner" we gave our answer to a supposed critique of our catechism which Deacon Hochstetter of Buffalo had brought to light in the "Informatorium." We showed there irrefutably how utterly groundless all the exceptions taken by the gentleman critic were, and how dishonestly he proceeded in doing so. At last, after a year had elapsed, Mr. Hochstetter comes forward again in the "Informatorium" (in its 7th number of the current year, of Sept. 1*)) and, in an essay headed "Professor Walther and His New Catechism," seeks to create in his readers the impression that his critique had been in the right. But what does he do? He passes over our most telling proofs in silence, and concerning those he does touch, he makes empty words, partly repeating his old, already-refuted accusations in but slightly altered form, partly adding new untruths and errors.

Mr. Hochstetter writes: "Mr. Walther has smuggled many sayings and passages from the Symbolical Books and other writings, abusively, in favor of his Missourian doctrines and his enmity toward the Buffalonians, into the book falsely purporting to be C. Dietrich's."**) He further writes that "the modern Missourian doctrine of the [ministerial] office [is derived] partly by the insertion of Bible passages, partly by the misconstruction of one

*) Which we did not receive, sent, until September 19. In early September we received, instead, the 6th number a second time.

**) To call passages "smuggled in" that are stated, together with their sources, as contained in it, on the title page and in the preface, and to call a book "purportedly" Dietrich's — thereby declaring it, in effect, a work of fraud — while the limitations under which the book is Dietrich's are likewise honestly stated on the title page and in the preface, is a knowing misrepresentation.