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APPOINTMENT OF YOUTHFUL CLERGY BERLIN, April 2. The efforts of Bishop Mueller of the German Reich, to unify and “Natify” German; Protestantism without offending either heaven or Hitler, are meeting with scant success. His repeated displacements of rebellious clergy by younger men, less ecclesiastially, but more nationalistically experienced, has aroused the scorn of “Reichswart,” the organ of Count Reventlow’s Anti-Christian German Faith Movement. “Reichswart” refers to the Bishop of Saxony’s edict that, because of the lack of Theologians in 1934, confirmation may be administered by unordained auxiliary clergy. It asks: “Why not employ some of those bishops who are suspended almost daily? These should form a club and cultivate their traditions. Anyhow, is not the average age of the new bishops 100 high? Surely the limit should be twenty-five, giving them forty or fifty years after their retirement to enable them to study theology.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19772, 13 April 1934, Page 9
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147TILT AT MUELLER Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19772, 13 April 1934, Page 9
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