TILT AT MUELLER.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 1

TILT AT MUELLER.

Appointment of Youthful Clergy. BERLIN, April 2. Reichsbishop Mueller’s efforts to unify and “ Nazify ” German Protestantism without offending either heaven or Hitler, are meeting with scant success. His repeated displacements of rebellious clergy by younger men, Itss ecclesiastically, 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 Theologian's 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 too high? Surely the limit should be twenty-five, giving them forty or fifty years after their retirement to enable them to study theology.”