# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Oktober 1905_S473
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 47³

Seine falsche Lehre vom Sonntag bringt der Lutheran Observer vom 18. August
wieder zum Ausdruck. Wir lassen etliche falsche Sätze folgen: “The Creator, hav-
ing made man in his own image, endowed him with faculties capable of god-
like development, and instituted one-seventh of his time for the cultivation
of home and spiritual life to prepare him gradually for a higher state of ex-
istence.““ „The original Sabbath day being indispensable to the cultivation
of Christian life was henceforth observed on the first day of the week, be⸗
cause that marked the beginning of a rest from all creative work gone be⸗
fore, and was also sanctified by the resurrection of Christ, the manifestation
of the Holy Spirit, the first preaching of the gospel and the establishment of
church life in the administration of the sacraments and spiritual worship
(Acts ii.).“ „There is no commandment more needful to learn and to enforce
than this third one, for people who do not regard it will not kKnow nor respect
any of the others, as the keeping of the law depends upon moral education
and godly fear.' „(When the Augsburg Confession, Art. XXVIII, speaks of
the Sabbath as having been abrogated by the Scriptures it evidently refers to
the ceremonial features of that day as inculcated in the Levitical law of the
Old Testament. To this all Lutheran theologians of Reformation times bear
clear testimony.“ „The disputed words of the Augsburg Confession, the
words in which it is pretended that the divine obligation of the Lord's day is
denied, furnish all the evidence that it is required. Neither the Augsburg
Confession, nor the greateést theologians of the Church of the A. C., denies
the divine obligation of the Christian Sabbath.““' — Schrift und Bekenntniß
reden über die Sonntagsfrage vollkommen klar und lehren nachdrücklichst, daß im
neuen Testament das christliche Gewissen nicht gebunden ist an bestimmte Tage und
Zeiten. F. B.

Von der Versöhnung Christi schreibt Dr. Huntington von New York, ein ton⸗
angebendes Glied der Episkopalkirche: For me the words of the Nicene Creed
sufflce: And was crucifled also for us under Pontius Pilate.“ That little
preposition for' conveys all the theory' of Atonement that I find necessary
for my peace of mind. When IJam asked to believe further that Christ bore
the penalty' of our sins, Lam fain to believe that penalty' seems to me the
correlative of guilt, and JIcannot, without upsetting all my moral notions,
acquiesce in the statement that Christ bore the penalty of others' guilt. That
he was wounded for our transgressions' and that che bore the sins of
many,' are statements that have ever satisfled the devout soul, sorrowing
over the world's sin and its own; and Icannot see that they carry with them
any necessary suggestion of the transfer of penalty. The nature miracles of
the gospel do not disturb my faith, but when Iam asked to accept, under the
name of a word miracle, that guilt can be transferred to another, Idemur.““
Dr. Huntington will an der Versöhnungslehre festhalten und streicht den Kern der⸗
selben, die Stellvertretung, und damit im Grunde das ganze Christenthum. Leider
gibt es unter den Secten nicht mehr viele Theologen, die noch glauben und lehren,
daß Christus durch sein stellvertretendes Thun und Leiden Gott versöhnt habe.

F. B.

Erpräsident Clebeland kein Freimaurer. Der Lutheran schrieb vor etlichen
Monaten: All our Presidents, with the exception of John Quincy Adams,
were Free Masons.“ Als ein Leser dies von Cleveland bestritt, wurde ein ent⸗
sprechendes Schreiben an den Expräsidenten gerichtet, welches er also beantwortete:
T have never been a member of the Free Masou Fraternity.“ F. B.