Preuss9a: Reply refuted; lambs and wolves: Jesuits

      This continues from Part 8 (Table of Contents in Part 1) in a series presenting C. F. W. Walther's account of Dr. Eduard Preuss's apostasy to the Roman Catholic Church. — Two weeks after Walther's exposé of the Preuss affair, the defector made an attempt at a "correction". — Der Lutheraner, vol. 28 (March 1), p. 83: 

Church Chronicle.

Walther             —            Preuss

Dr. [Eduard] Preuss, in the Herald of Faith [Catholic Herold des Glaubens] of Feb. 25, under the title “Correction”, tried to blur the impression which the revelations made about him in Der Lutheraner [of Feb. 15], which were based on facts, must have created.  We consider it all the less worth the trouble to prove in detail that the alleged “Correction” is a web of truth and lies,*) since only an incompetent reader would not already find out from the “Correction” itself how absurd, yes, partly how ridiculous the poor man tries to talk his way out of it.**)  

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*) It is an obvious lie, for example, that Preuss did not plan that “contract” in secret, did not fearfully keep it secret as long as it was possible, but made it known to us or a colleague; it is also an obvious lie that he had already written the part of the article in Lehre und Wehre from which we made excerpts, already in September.  

**) It is ridiculous, for example, that Preuss tries to whitewash himself by saying that he wrote about the Pope in much earlier times, which of course he did not have printed until December 1871!

In any case, the cleverest thing in the article is the mild tone that is slipped into it.  Informed people know, however, that such a tone is also one of the means that the Jesuits sometimes believe they must use.  After all, the third general of the Jesuits, Francis Borgia, himself declared of the Jesuits: 

“Like lambs we have entered, 

Like wolves we will rule, 

Like dogs we will be driven out, 

Like eagles we will renew ourselves”.  W. [Walther]

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      In the next news item following the above, Walther had to defend against even more opposition, this time from American Lutherans, in the concluding Part 9b.