# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1911_S280
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

280 Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

Commonly this unseemly spectacle ends in divisions among the people, who
must decide on the respective merits of the rival claimants. It certainly
lowers tue popular estimate, or What ought to be the popular estimate, of
the sacred ministry, and inflates congregations with a sense of their oWn
importance, Wwhich holds out slight prospect of comfort to pastors placed
in charge of them.“

The Sunday School Times schreibt über salvation by character: Two
kinds of salvation are proposed to us to-day: salvation by character and
salvation to character. The former is the old legal salvation by Works.
The latter is the Christian salvation by grace. The alternative is as old
as the Gospel. According to Paul it is as old as Abraham, as old indeed
as Cain and Abel. In one view we achieve salvation; in the other we
receive it. According to the former, we earn it. According to the latter,
it is a gift to us.“

Im Century Magazine hat MeGiffert über Luther eine Reihe von
Artikeln veröffentlicht. In dem Abschnitt über den Ablaßhandel sagt er:
„COlear-eyed and intolerant of all sophistry, Luther hated it with a grow-
ing hatred; and the preétended piety of the whole transaction incensed
him only the moré. Religion was to him the most sacred of all affairs.
Por its sake he had long ago broken with his father and abandoned
n cahreéer of grent worldly promise. and in his religious life he had passed
through ethe most agonizing and exalted experiences possible to àa human
soul. To make it a matter of buying and selling, to offer divine grace
for gold, and to attempt to purchase the forgiveness and favor of God —
all this was to befoul the boliest of all relationships; and, like the
prophets of old, his pious soul waxed hot within him.“

Bischof Vincent, der die Gemeindeschule schlechthin als unamerikanisch
verurteilt hatte, sagt dem Vtheren zufolge in einem Briefe: I never
thought of the Lutherans when I penned that sentence in my Autobio-
graphical Votes about Parochal Schools. That was àa reference to the
Roman Catholics. I did not kKnow that Lutherans supported parochial
schools. If I can't change their mind, I must modify my statements.
I love the Lutherans. My mother was baptized and confirmed in old
St. John's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. Vour kind and courteous
letter warms my heart. and leads me to resolve to be a bit more careful
W'hen Iwrite about Larochial Schools. Iam öau intense Protestant, with
centuries of IIuguenotie blood in my veins. How carefully we should
handle the pen in our days!“ Mit Bezug auf papistische Schulen trifft
Vincents Urteil insofern zu, als dort allerdings die Freiheit unsers Landes
untergraben wird und auch, was das Bürgerliche betrifft, nicht Amerikaner,
sondern Papstknechte erzogen werden, die die Amter des Staates begehren,
um sie im Interesse der Papstkirche auszubeuten. F. B.

„Prof. Garner, der Erfinder der Affensprache, hält es für nötig, noch
einmal von sich reden zu machen. Bekanntlich hat er seinerzeit mit dem
Phonographen die Affen belauscht und dabei sehr wunderliche Entdeckungen
gemacht, die nur das Üble an sich hatten, daß sie kaum jemand ernst nahm.
Jetzt hat er eine fünfjährige Studienreise nach Innerafrika beendet und
bringt sechs Affen mit (Schimpansen), denen er das „Sprechen' beigebracht
hat. „Diesmal', schreibt Garner, ist es mir wirklich gelungen, einigen