BIBLE SALES LEAP UP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 117, 16 June 1941, Page 4

BIBLE SALES LEAP UP

GROWING GERMAN DEMAND TOLL OF BIUTATN'S CHURCHES Official figures of the damage done by Nazi bombers to Ghurcl) property in England and Wales comes on the heels of the affirmation of the Hitler cread in a homo broadcast to German youth. "This," the announcer declared, the creed of our time: We believe in Hitler. And what of the old creeds? The scriptures are dead. We nee«i no fairy tales to-day. Believing, we entrust our destiny to ■.our Fuehrer.** As a practical contribution to the Nazi point of view, their bombers have now destroyed or damaged 2659 churches of all denominations in Ens£ land and Wales, apart from vicarages, convents, church halls an«T manses. Among the 714 which have been completely destroyed or seriously damaged as the cathedrals of Coventry, Llandaff and St. Paul's (although the main fabric of the latter remains untouched). Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, and the Deanery of Canterbury have all scars the meaning of "kultur." than 108 vicarages, 304 church halls, 230 church schools, and 36 convents have all been wrecked. The fact that this Nazi attitude to Christianity is not shared by ail who live within the Reich may be inferred from much bigger attendances reported at Catholic and Protestant Churches and tl.e increasing sale of the Bible to Germans, other than Nazis. It has gone up from 830,000 in 1930 to 1,523,000 last year.