CHURCH IN GERMANY.
SEVEN HUNDRED ARRESTS. PASTOR NIEMOLLER TAKEN. (United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 18. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says tliac 700 pastors of the Opposition (Confessional) Movement in the Lutheran Church were arrested to-day for reading the movement’s manifesto yesterday night. The Secret Police have notified 5000 pastors throughout Prussia that they are prohibited from reading the manifesto under pain of arrest. Pastor Niemoller, who read the manifesto on March 10, was arrested late to-night. The manifesto condemning the Nazi fjlerman-Christian movement, which is field by Reich Bishop Mueller, was issued on March 10 and stated: The new religion rejects the First Commandment. Faith in tlie eternal Geimany replaces faith in the. Kingdom of Christ. The new and anti-Christian religion creates its god in the likeness of man.” It denounced the methods of Bishop Mueller as an attempt to adopt “blood, race and nationality as religious principles and to substitute faith in an eternal Germany! for faith in Jesus Christ, thereby committing idolatry.” The protest concluded that the Church’s duty' was to preach the Gospel and that it must refuse to be driven into a mere back water of private devotion.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 134, 19 March 1935, Page 5
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