Synod of the West, in the same year, declared that it was unable to recommend the _Kirchenzeitung_ to its members. The charges were that the _Kirchenzeitung_ was directly opposed to the _Lutheran Observer_; that it revealed an improper spirit with respect to revivals and charitable institutions; that it had declared the _Lutheran Observer_ to be anti-Lutheran, and directed its influence against this excellent paper. The Pennsylvania Synod, however, to which Pastor Schmidt submitted the resolution of the Synod of the West, decided in favor of the _Kirchenzeitung_. In 1849, the same year in which the _Mercersburg Review_ appeared, the _Evangelical Review_ was published at Gettysburg by W. M. Reynolds, whom Charles Philip Krauth succeeded as editor. Both Reynolds and Krauth were prominent among the leaders of the conservatives. What the _Evangelical Review_, however, really stood for was not unqualified Lutheranism, but unionism. (_L. u. W._ 1858, 272 f.) On principle the _Review_ opened its pages to both the advocates and the opponents of the Lutheran symbols and its doctrines. (_Lutheraner_ 1852, 136.) Walther's report in the _Lutheraner_ on his trip to Germany in the interest of an agreement with Loehe appeared English in the _Evangelical Review_ of 1853. (_L._ 9, 134.) The career of the _Evangelical Review_ was closed in 1870. It was succeeded by the _Lutheran Quarterly_, first edited by Drs. Brown and Valentine, both of whom were not essentially Lutheran, but unionistic and Reformed theologians.--In 1845, Dr. W. A. Passavant began a small missionary periodical which grew into a large family weekly, the _Missionary_. Though one of its objects was to oppose the un-Lutheran tendency of the _Observer_, the _Missionary_ itself was free neither of unionism nor even of Reformedism. According to its issue of February 28, 1861, for instance, communicants at the Lord's Supper partake of Christ's body and blood by faith. The _Missionary_ was a champion also of the Reformed doctrine of the Sunday. (_L. u. W._ 1861, 123. 350.) In 1861 the _Missionary_ merged into the _Lutheran and Missionary_, with Drs. Krauth and Passavant as editors--a paper which took a decided stand in favor of a modified confessional Lutheranism. In 1861 the editors declared with respect to pulpit- and altar-fellowship: "We do not want to refuse the sweet bond of Christian fellowship to those who sincerely love our Lord Jesus Christ." (_L. u. W._ 1861, 379; 1862, 19 ff.) The _Lutheran World_, serving the cause of the conservatives till 1912, when it was merged into the _Lutheran Church Work_ (established 1911 as the official organ of the General Synod), always defended the unionistic practises of the General Synod, and violently attacked Missouri for disapproving of her fellowship with the sects. (_L. u. W._ 1901, 54; 1904, 564.) In 1901 the _Lutheran World_ wrote: "Perhaps we shall always have three great church bodies, lest any truth concerning the Trinity be lost.