Kovaciny Denies Story - Holy Cow!

Hay! I need more hay.

Prof. Roger Kovaciny has left a new comment on your post "Hope for the Lazy":

I deny that I furnished the "cow" quotation attributed to me. Everyone who knows me knows that I am very victorian and reserved about earthy subjects and do not talk like that. At most I might have said "increase the suction in the milking machine." Kindly note the correction. You may have me confused with someone else.

P.S. I don't bother reading your blog, but do google my name from time to time.

Roger Kovaciny


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GJ - There it is folks, an official denial. There are a lot of people--who never read this blog--who are writing about what they read on Ichabod.

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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Kovaciny Denies Story - Holy Cow!":

It shouldn't surprise anyone you misquoted Kovaciny. You do it all the time to people: you misquote and ascribe things to individuals that are simply not true. I kind of wish someone would do it to you for once. I'm sure there is a treasure trove of dirt out there somewhere on you.

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GJ - I think his memory is hazy, very hazy. I was there when he said it. Kovo insisted that I had two doctorates, one in agriculture. He kept insisting that it was true. I finally said, "If I had earned a doctorate in agriculture, wouldn't I remember it?" There's the dirt you want Mouse - no ag degree.

I enjoy posting some of the nasty material I get each day, just to show how some people think.

Sound (Hygienic) Doctrine

Sound Doctrine

"Since now, in the sight of God and of all Christendom [the entire Church of Christ], we wish to testify to those now living and those who shall come after us that this declaration herewith presented concerning all the controverted articles aforementioned and explained, and no other, is our faith, doctrine, and confession, in which we are also willing, by God's grace, to appear with intrepid hearts before the judgment-seat of Jesus Christ, and give an account of it; and that we will neither privately nor publicly speak or write anything contrary to it, but, by the help of God's grace, intend to abide thereby: therefore, after mature deliberation, we have, in God's fear and with the invocation of His name, attached our signatures with our own hands."

Thorough Declaration, Of Other Factions and Sects, Formula of Concord, Concordia Triglotta, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921, p. 1103.



"'If there ever was a strictly conservative body, it surely is the Missouri Synod. Nevertheless, this growth!...It is a mark of the pastors and leaders of the Missouri Synod that they never, aye, never, tire of discussing doctrine on the basis of Scripture and the Confessions. That is one trait that may be called the spirit of Missouri. People who thus cling to doctrine and contend for its purity are of an entirely different nature from the superficial unionists who in the critical moment will declare five to be an even number. God will bless all who value His Word so highly.'"

(Dr. Lenski, Kirchenzeitung, May 20, 1922)

cited in W. A. Baepler, "Doctrine, True and False," The Abiding Word, ed., Theodore Laetsch, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1946, II, p. 515f.



"We should not consider the slightest error against the Word of God unimportant."

What Luther Says , An Anthology, 3 vols., ed., Ewald Plass, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959, II, p. 637.



"Error and heresy must come into the world so that the elect may become approved and manifest. Their coming is in the best interests of Christians if they take the proper attitude toward it. St. Augustine, who certainly was sufficiently annoyed by wretched sectaries, says that when heresy and offense come, they produce much benefit in Christendom; for they cause Christians industriously to read Holy Scriptures and with diligence to pursue it and persevere in its study. Otherwise they might let it lie on the shelf, become very secure, and say: Why, God's Word and the text of Scripture are current and in our midst; it is not necessary for us to read Holy Scripture."
What Luther Says, An Anthology, 3 vols., ed., Ewald Plass, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1959, II, p. 639.