A BRITISH PRAYER

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2833, 26 July 1916, Page 8

A BRITISH PRAYER

HOW A GERMAN CLERGYMAN ~ RECEIVED IT. Great indignation has been caused in Genaan CVurch circles by an attempt made by two women, Frau Cauer and . Fraulein Blfirnenthal, both of Berlin, to find a basis of agreement between German and English Protestants in a prayer offered.up by the Archbishop of Canterbury at the servias held s.t St. Paul's Cathedral on Jauaury 2, ISI6. These two '.vomen printed and circulated copies of the Archbishop's prayer, and recommend«i German pastors to pray and preach in the same spirit. The Rev. lmmanuel Uejn, pastor of tho Kaiser AVilhelm Alemorial Chur.-.-h at Charlottcnburg, Berlin, and Liberal member of the Reichstag, writes: "I cannot pray or otherwise work together with so.iieo.ue who abuses me and my people. I cannot maintain a com. munity of religion with someone who is unable to base upon the same religion which we both profess, the 6arae rnlei *>f morality which he expects mo and my people to observe. Mutual truthfulness is absolutely essential to cooperation in everything, "including religion, and this is the point at which (difficult as it is to affirm) (here is au irreparable breach between England and Germany. Wc Germans must refuse, as something which is morallj impcwibtr-, oiiy community/, nf prayer and religious work with tliem" (the English). One of the lcadiii" German religious periodicals, the "Deutsck-Evangelisclie Correspondent," publishes a violent at* tack on Frail Caucr and Fraulein- Blumenthal, accusing them of violating the military regulations by ptintiiig and circulating Mich a document, and suggesting that tlwy are "cither enemies ol their own country ov mentally deficient,"