"NEW RELIGION" IN GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21420, 12 March 1935, Page 11

"NEW RELIGION" IN GERMANY

FIRST COMMANDMENT REJECTED I'ASTOKS DETAINED T,Y POLICE BERLIN, March 10. A proclamation entitled "Confessions of Synod" was read from pulpits by its adherents throughout Germany. The "new religion" rejects the First Commandment. Faith in eternal Germany replaces faith in the Kingdom of Christ. The new antiChristian religion creates its God in the likeness of man. Secret police forbade the reading of the proclamation and confiscated copies at Stettin. Two pastors were detained until the services were finished. TENDENCIES OF NAZI EXTREMISTS OUTSPOKEN DENUNCIATION (Received March 11, 10 p.m.) BERLIN, March 10. The most outspoken denunciation of the anti-Christian tendencies of Nazi extremists yet published was read publicly before 10,000 Protestant parishioners on Sunday. The protest denounced the methods of Reichsbishop Mueller as an attempt to adopt "Blood, race, and nationality as religious principles, and substitute faith in eternal Germany for faith in Jesus Christ, thereby committing idolatry." The protest concluded: "The church's duty is to preach the gospel, and it must refuse to be driven into a mere backwater of private devotion."