LUTHERANS. 



in all its articles of faith sets forth the pure and un- 

 eorruptcd Word of God positively and negatively, 

 the consciences of all Lutherans, whether as indi- 

 viduals, congregations, or ecclesiastical bodies, are 

 bound by it. 



Thaw 4. Accordingly, no congregation or eccle- 

 siastical body is orthodol Lutheran that does not 

 receive the words of this Confession, both as they 

 teach the truth and as they reject errors. 



An explanatory remark was appended to 

 thesis 2, to the effect that "the adoption of 

 the other symbols is not absolutely necessary 

 for Lutheran fellowship, so far as it is not 

 denied that they stand in harmony with the 

 Augsburg Confession in the same pure faith." 



An informal conference was held during 

 the summer at Canton, O., between members 

 of the General Synod and the General Con- 

 ference, to discuss the points of difference be- 

 tween the two bodies, and to seek some way 

 of a better understanding between them. It 

 was not attended with any favorable results. 

 The ZeiUchrtft, a journal in sympathy with 

 the General Council in reviewing the move- 

 ment tor union, remarked that it had devel- 

 oped the following points : 



1. That important doctrinal differences caused the 

 division of tlie General Synod at Fort Wayne. 



2. That, notwithstanding all personal agreement, 

 the General Council, as a body, stands, neverthe- 

 less, upon an entirely different doctrinal basis from 

 the General Synod. 



3. That these real doctrinal differences, or the 

 principles of both bodies, ought to be made thor- 

 oughly known among all the pastors and congrega- 

 tion* of the country. 



4. That the points which in reality divide the 

 General Council from the General Synod can now be 

 discussed in a more calm and appropriate manner 

 than they could immediately after the separation, 

 seven rears ago. 



6. "That the present existing differences in doc- 

 trine and practice must be openly and honestly 

 acknowledged by both sides before the division 

 wedge can be removed. 



On the 9tli of October, a voluntary confer- 

 ence was held in the city of New York be- 

 tween a number of ministers connected with 

 the German Synod in the United States, and 

 the German delegates to the meeting of the 

 Evangelical Alliance who were connected with 

 the Lutheran Church. A leading object of 

 discussion was as to the method in which the 

 wants of the German congregations in the 

 United States could best be met. It was agreed 

 by all the German representatives that the 

 nood of pastors at home fin Germany) was so 

 great that none could well be spared for work 

 in America. Nevertheless, in view of the moral 

 responsibility resting upon the German Church 

 to care for its scattered members, and of the 

 fact that the English-speaking Churches in the 

 United States were not equal to the work of 

 reaching the Germans, they were willing to 

 undertake to do all that was possible to supply 

 the peculiar deficiency which existed here. 

 They agreed, therefore, that a number of young, 

 unmarried ministers should be sent over, who 

 should remain, laboring for fixed salaries, for 

 from three to five years, and that teachers and 



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colporteurs should be furnished from the Wi- 

 chern's Institute, to meet the remote wants in 

 this country. The German delegates suggested 

 that the American Lutherans secure a good 

 German professor, and place him in one of 

 their institutions ; and that they endow one or 

 two scholarships in a German university, the 

 incumbents of which should be expected to 

 elevate themselves to the German work in the 

 United States. 



LYTTON, Right Hon. Sir EDWARD GEORGE 

 EARLB LYTTON BULWER, Baron, D. C. L., an 

 English novelist, poet, dramatist, statesman, 

 and historian, one of the most prolific of mod- 

 ern writers, born at Haydon Hall, Norfolk, in 

 May, 1805 ; died at Knebworth, Herts, January 

 18, 1873. He was the youngest son of the 

 late General Bulwer and Elizabeth Barbara 

 Lytton, his wife. He was educated at home 

 by his mother, and afterward in private schools, 

 whence he passed first to Trinity College, and 

 subsequently to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where 

 he took the Chancellor's Prize Medal for his 

 English poem on "Sculpture." During the 

 long vacation he made pedestrian excursions 

 over England and Scotland, and the year after 

 he left college he traveled on horseback through 

 a great part of France. He graduated B. A. 

 in 1826 and M. A. in 1835, and at a later pe- 

 riod Oxford, and in 1864 Cambridge, conferred 

 on him the honorary degree of D. C. L. His 

 strong literary bias displayed itself in early 

 life, and he first appeared in print in 1820, 

 when only fifteen years of age, as the author 

 of " Ismael," an Oriental tale. His next pub- 

 lished work, in 1825, was the prize poem on 

 "Sculpture," already metioned. In the fol- 

 lowing yenr he printed, at Paris, exclusively 

 for private circulation, fifty copies of "Weeds 

 and Wild-Flowers," a small collection of po- 

 ems and of maxims or aphorisms, which has 

 never been published in the editions of his col- 

 lected works. For the next forty years he 

 produced, with remarkable rapidity, but with 

 a due regard to consistency of plot and high 

 literary excellence, twenty-two novels, of 

 which the following nre the titles and dates: 

 "Falklnnd," 1827; "Pelham, or the Adven- 

 tures of a Gentleman," 1828; "The Dis- 

 owned," 1829; "Deverenx," 1829; "Paul 



Rienzi," 1835; "Ernest Maltravers," 1837; 

 "Alice, or the Mysteries," 1887; "Leila, or 

 the Siege of Granada," 1838; "Night and 

 Morning," 1841 ; "Zanoni," 1842; "The Last 

 of the Barons," 1843; "Lucretia," 1846; 

 "Harold," 1848; "The Caxtons," 1850; "My 

 Novel," 1853; "What will He do with It?" 

 1857; and "A Strange Story," 1862. During 

 the same period he published, in addition to 

 the two poems already mentioned, the follow- 

 ing volumes of poems: "The Siamese Twins," 

 1831; "Eva and other Poems," 1842; "Po- 

 ems and Ballads translated from Schiller," 



