Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

Ixviii Introductory Essay.
mockery and an unreality.
The end proposed
is an unbounded vista of future development,
inviting us,
we know not whither. In this
development we are to borrow something from
the Danish theology, for it is to be through
" mutual giving and receiving." Certainly 110
account which we have received of Danish
theology would make one anxious to receive
from it.
For Denmark (it was said to me by Danes
aught
forty years ago) was honeycombed with ration
Lutheranism had gone through the same
alism ;
phases in Denmark as in Germany. It had
come to an early death ; and then, having ex
isted for some time in its mummy state, when
to the air it had crumbled into dust.
exposed
"
If some few of GOD S children are excepted,
there is this difference only between us and our
heathen forefathers, that we bear the Christian
was the statement of the seven earnest
name,"
Norwegian preachers
to Frederic IV. in 1714.*
"
Believing said
preaching,"
"
preacher lately,t
occurs in
a Schleswig
Denmark only
sporadically."
" Danish superficiality, Danish
unbelief, and Danish immorality are now" (he
says of his own Schleswig)
"
engrafted into
the land (through Danish clergy and officials).
* In Hengstenberg Ev. KZ. 1843, p. 536 ; Dollinger
Kirche und Kirchen, p. 362, calls them "
t In Brans, Repert. v. 106.
Bishops."