“WE ACCUSE OURSELVES”
German Church Leaden*’ Statement The newly-formed Evangelical Church in Germany has become affiliated to the World Council of Churches in the presence of representatives from British, American. Swiss, Dutch and French Churches. At the first meeting of its own Council, ihe following statement was issued by the German Church leaders:—
“We, with our people, know ourselves to be in a great company of suffering, but also in a great solidarity of guilt. With great pain do we say that through us has endless suffering been brought to many peoples and countries. What we have often borne witness to before our congregations, we declare in the name of the whole Church. True, we have struggled for many years in the name of Jesus Christ against a spirit which has found its terrible expression in the National Socialist regime of violence, but we accuse ourselves for not witnessing more courageously, for not praying more faithfully, for not believing moTe joyously and for not loving more ardently.” —“Life and Work,” December, 1945.
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White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 June 1946, Page 5
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172“WE ACCUSE OURSELVES” White Ribbon, Volume 18, Issue 5, 1 June 1946, Page 5
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