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THE CHINA MAIL, (NOVEMBER 12, 1938.

'GREAT ARMY OF MARTYRS' IN GERMAN CHURCH: TELLS OF SECRET SYNOD

"In Germany, the church in the catacombs exists and to visit it is.

no fancy adventure," declared Mr. "FRANCE FOR THE

S. H. Moore, headmaster of Sil- coates School, Wakefield, at the autumn assembly of the Congrega- tional Union at Bradford.

The spiritual principles of the Reformation were still intact in Germany, and a secret synod which he attended in the heart of the country a short time ago based all its actions upon such principles.

Mr. Moore said that he had spoken to a number of men and he knew of a very much larger num ber who had been in prison

and had been harshly treated some of them very harshly-for their reli- gious belief. Since 1933, 7,000 had been arrested for religious offences.

TEACHING SUPPRESSED

men

Under penalties all young and young women had been remov- ed from every form of Christian worship; all theological colleges had been closed; all Christian teaching had been suppressed in the schools. For five years a stream of defama- tion and calumny had assailed Christian principles and Christian people.

Printing presses had been closed. telephones tapped, and correspon- dence conscored and destroyed when religious matters were in question.

FRENCH," PARIS STUDENTS SHOUT

Paris, To-day.

"France for the French," many students shouted to-day when the Minister of Education, M. Jean Zay, arrived at Sorbonne Univer- sity for the solemn reopening ceremony.

Several other students went into the college building and set free pigeons which they smuggled in under cover of their clothes.

The police arrested three of the students, charging them with in- sulting officials.

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munion tables. It was not in these externals, but in the soul of their worship that their danger lurked.

BIBLE'S DISAPPEARANCE ·.

"We have churches," he said. "some with liturgies, some with- out, some with crosses, some with- out. where the inheritance of the Reformers has been almost lost because the Word and the Sacra- ment have almost gone.

"The great central pulpit has shrunk to a reading desk, or has been flattened to a platform. The great Bible has disappeared. The readings from the Scriptures have "Pastor Niemoeller is being slow dwindled to a snippit or a lesson. ly murdered, Mr. Moore said, "and

"The hymns are not charged in many another member of that great every line with Scriptural content. army of martyrs has lost goods, They discuss mountain scenery, liberty, and..in some cases life. Of psychological disorders, priggish the 18,000 Protestant pastors in ambitions and Germany 1,300 have been imprison-mes." ed, some of them several times."

SUBJECT OF SCORN

When such things were going on, surely... they, co-believers, were bound to interest themselves in the matter? The Church to-day in Ger- many was a suffering Church. It was a subject of scorn.

Germany had set up "Mein Kampf" and the sword in place of the Bible and the Cross. The Labour Front leader had said, "The party claims the totality of the soul of the German people."

political program

The preaching of the Word had evaporated into flabby platitudes about the dangers of the interna-

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