TENDENCIES DENOUNCED.
GERMAN CHURCH TROUBLE. BERLIN, March 11. The so-called “Confessionals Proclamation” is the most outspoken denunciation of the anti-Christian tendencies of Nazi extremists yet published. It was read publicly before 10,000 Protestant parishioners on Sunday. Tlie protest denounced the methods of Reicnsbishop Mueller as an attempt to adopt “blood, race and nationality as religious principles and to substitute faith in eternal Germany for faith in Jesus Christ, thereby committing idola-try.” The protest concluded that the Church’s duty is to preach the Gospel. It must refuse to be driven into a mere backwater of private devotion. Tlie secret police forbade the reading of the Confessionals Proclamation, confiscating copies at Stettin and detaining two pastors till the services had finished.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 7
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119TENDENCIES DENOUNCED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 7
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