CHURCH OR STATE?
MORE PRESSURE ON PASTORS IN GERMANY ORDERED TO TAKE OATH TO HITLER STRONG PROTEST MADE By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.50 a.m.) BERLIN, May 9. Faced with a Nazi order, the pastors of the Evangelical Church must take the oath to Herr Hitler, or be dismissed, Dr Mueller, on behalf of the confessional or opposition pastors in Prussia, has sent a letter to Dr Werner, the Nazi Commissioner for the Church in Prussia, saying: “We have reason to believe that you are trying to introduce to the Church regulations applying to State officials and it is our duty to fight this attempt to chance the church ecclesiastical law.”
Dr Mueller, in conclusion, states that confessional pastors have been instructed to take the oath to Herr Hitler only if simultaneously they declare that they are still bound by their ordination oath. This means if, as is inevitable, the two oaths clash, the oath to Herr Hitler will take second place.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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164CHURCH OR STATE? Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 7
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