Missing CTM motto: preaching is paramount, but not in newer editions of Book of Concord

[2023-08-15: note added in red at bottom.]

      The newer editions of the Lutheran Book of Concord have been shown to be deficient elsewhere.  But another example of this has been pointed out to me recently.  The very first issue of the periodical Concordia Theological Monthly (or CTM) in 1930 contained a 3-part motto, one of which was in the German language.  Below is the image of the Contents page of Volume 1, No. 1 with the German motto highlighted: 

     The highlighted German text on the right comes from the Apology to the Augsburg Confession, Article 24 (Of the Mass), paragraph 50.  However this text was only in the German version, not in the Latin version. But there it is, as one of the mottos chosen to appear every month on the title/contents page. — The German text is "Es ist kein Ding, das die Leute mehr bei der Kirche hehaelt, denn die gute Predigt."  In the English of the Triglotta it reads: 

"There is nothing that so attaches people to the church as good preaching." 

In McCain's edition, it reads (p. 228):

"There is nothing that keeps people at church more than good preaching." 

So we see a real benefit of Bente's Triglotta is that it merges the German with the Latin, giving a more complete version. The sad thing is that both the Tappert and Kolb/Wengert editions which replaced the Triglotta, because they do not follow Bente's lead, leave out important parts of the German edition. And while McCain's edition follows the Triglotta, even it did not include the full quote from the German which reads:

"There is nothing that so attaches people to the church as good preaching. But our adversaries preach their people out of the churches; for they teach nothing of the necessary parts of Christian doctrine; they narrate the legends of saints and other fables." 

Why McCain's edition left out the remaining highlighted portion is a mystery.  — This a problem within the LC-MS, where certain factions want to place the Lord's Supper as the chief part of the worship service, demoting the importance of the preached sermon.  These are the Romanizing followers of the German theologian Wilhelm Loehe.

      So while the Old Missouri Synod was being transformed into a different church body in 1930, later called the "LC-MS" in 1947, yet even then it was recognized that proper preaching was of paramount importance. This is confessed in the Lutheran Confessions, even if it is not in their current Kolb/Wengert edition of the Book of Concord.

[2023-08-15: It may be noted that Dr. Jack Kilcrease still makes reference to Bente's Triglotta, not to Kolb/Wengert's Book of Concord - see his 2020 CTQ essay "The Challenge of Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Word of God", p. 67 ff.]