FIERCE BATTLE
CHURCHES IN GERMANY
NAZIS AND DISSIDENTS
CLIMAX REACHED
United Tress Associnllon—By Electric TeleI crapb—Coiiyrißtil. ' (Received October 15, 1 p.m.) t BERLIN, Oclnbcr ]4^ The battle between the Nazi German j Christians and eight thousand dissident) pastors is reaching its climax of fierceness owing to secret police, shadowing Bishops in Bavaria and Wurtcmburg. The Primate (Dr. Mueller) spent the weekend on his Silesian estate, while pastors throughout tho country protested in almost unprecedented language, nearly all referring to the Opposition manifesto, tho distribution of which, the police prevented. A congregation, overflowing into tho rainswept street, strugglod to hear Dr. Niemoller endorse tho manifesto. Munich pastors, denouncing the Muellerites as allies of heresy, laying waste tho House of God, hurled defiance at Dr. Jaeger's forcible domination of the Bavarian Church, Subscriptions have been taken up to support allegiance to Bishop Meiser, whose continuance in offleo is demanded.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9
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147FIERCE BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 91, 15 October 1934, Page 9
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