RH2: "So much about the Missouri Synod": Hoffmann's report

      This continues from Part 1 (Table of Contents in Part 1) in a series presenting Pastor's Hochstetter's critique of a German pamphlet on the Old Missouri Synod. — In this post we present an English translation of the full 33-page pamphlet that acknowledged "so much about the Missouri Synod." 

    On the first page of Pastor Rudolf Hoffmann's narrative is a quote from Prof. C. E. Luthardt's German state church newspaper that provided his motivation. It spoke of some Missourian leaning pastors in Germany who were disturbing a conference. I located the source of the quote and found the following sentences to show how these "Missourians" were received at the conference:

The tone in which this happened is so well known that we need to qualify it in more detail. But because the closing prayer of Superintendent Fauck asked us to forget the discord in an extremely heartfelt and pleasant way, we should not take it upon ourselves to refresh our memory of the addresses in question by quoting the offensive statements here.

So these "Missourians" had ruffled the feathers of the state churchmen. Pastor Hoffmann thus poses the question: "Would we [in Germany] have to sit learning at the feet of Missouri?". He uses this question to launch his investigation. — The following is my English translation, using machine translators, from the original German. Because there are no chapters, only long narratives, I have added my own "Table of Contents" to allow the reader quick access to various sections:

A DOCX file of the above is available >>  here  <<. PDF of original here.

Because the writing above is focused on the old Missouri Synod (not the LC-MS) and its doctrinal differences with the German United, or Union, Church, I would encourage the reader to read Hoffmann's small 34-page pamphlet to get the full background of what was being said in Germany. — 

      A year after the above pamphlet appeared, in January and February of 1882, Pastor Christian Hochstetter would provide his critique in the pages of Lehre und Wehre.  In the following blog posts, I present an enhanced translation of Hochstetter's 16-page article. I will reserve my comments on Hoffmann's writing until then. The presentation starts with the next Part 3.