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There is, also, a separate work, entitled Americanisches Ackerwerck Gottes, von SAMUEL URLSPERGER. Augs. 1745-1760. 4to. 4 vol. A most interesting account of the persecution is to be found in two thin quarto volumes by J.M. TEUBENER, entitled Historie derer Emigranten oder Vertriebenen Lutheraner aus dem Ertz-Bissthum Saltzburg. 2 vols. 4to. Leipz. 1732.

Even after this sacrament was understood in an evangelical sense, the Lutherans for a long time kept the name mass. Thus Melanchthon writes in the Augs. Conf., Art. xxiv, "Our churches are falsely accused of abolishing the mass; for the mass is retained on our part, and celebrated with the greatest reverence." De Weite, Luther's Briefe, I, 475.

I should be very sorry to take anything out of your hands; and altogether I can say ye less about this because, wretched as it would be that we should appear in ye E. connected with Lutherans, I do not feel that it would introduce any organic change in us, and so cannot anticipate that it would. I see that the Conf. of Augs. does not express consubstantiation. Art.

The monogram, as we have seen, is a substitute for the full-length signature of the artist the mode of marking their works originally adopted by the ancients. It is found in an almost infinite number of varieties. The earliest, as well as the most natural and easy substitute, was a simple contraction of the name as, 'augs ca., for Augustinus Caraccius; or JVL. ROM., for Julius Romanus.