Don't Dry for Me Northwest Arkansas!

 This proved to be a prescient Photoshop. Jeske's Change or Die clone of Fuller Seminary ran over Carl Gausewitz' Justification by Faith catechism. Try to find an original. Jeske - "We ran out of Germans?" No, WELS ran out of believers.

I glanced at the bird baths this morning, filled to the brim. More rain is coming today, with a few pauses.

The Gospel rain moves on. The wise men of the ALPB Online Forum figure the LCMS will continue but in a shrunken state. Of course, that claim may be a sugar high from their Ovaltine habit. When the liver is gone, Ovaltine fills the gap and firms the beltline.

As I wrote before, the LCMS moved into quasi-ELCA status a long time ago: promoting Universalism, promoting the Pope's agenda, slow-walking to women's ordination, eager to shed the burden of its colleges and overbuilt seminaries.

We are not far from the 100th anniversary of Carl Gausewitz' death in 1928. He was president of the Wisconsin Synod and the Synodical Conference, data here.

Fredrich wrote about him:

It would be safe to assume even without statistical evidence that 90 percent of the members in our church body learned the rudiments of the Christian religion from the Gausewitz Catechism in either its original or revised form. Who was Gausewitz? Even without statistical evidence it would be safe to assume that 90 percent of these learners would not even know the rudiments of a Gausewitz biography. That situation should be rectified. 

Already in 1927 the obituary writers were hinting at a reluctance of Gausewitz to have writings of his or about him appear in print.

Add to this the built-in aversion of our church body to heroes and hero-worship and a definite difficulty has been created for any biographical endeavors. Nevertheless some biographical material is required in a Quarterly issue that concentrates on the anniversary of Luther’s Catechism. Who was Gausewitz? 

It took a century of propaganda. Last I heard, DP Seifert was slapping the wrist of voted-out District VP Kuske, for criticizing Objective Justification. Kuske's honorary title of VP emeritus was deleted with malignant but tepid force. Felonies are denied and hidden in WELS (no less LCMS) but even the mildest statement in favor of the Chief Article of Christianity (Justification by Faith for Mordor graduates) must be addressed.

The Road To Hell Is Paved with Objective Justification - Plenty of Material Linked Here

 In WELS, professors wear Calvinist robes and promote Objective Justification with Jesuit educations. Stuck on the name John Brenner, each generation has to promote General Justification, no Universal Justification, no Universal Objective Justification, no Justification of the World. There are so many labels for the same old blarney.