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...there is history. Individual Jews will always come to Christianity; but the question whether Christianity should try to convert Judaism as a whole is at least an open question, and a question about which many Biblical theologians of today are extremely skeptical ..." ¶ In the German town of Darmstadt-Eberstadt (pop. 15,000), Protestant and Roman Catholic church bells rang out in new ecumenical harmony. The Catholic bells' low C,D,F,G and the Evangelical bells' higher G,B,C,D formed (more or less) the tune of the Te Deum composed in the 4th century...
...other court, it might have seemed that the bench was having a little joke, but District Judge Karl Holzschuh of Darmstadt, Germany, meant every word he said. The defendant in the case was a 17-year-old boy who had just been convicted of stealing a motorcycle and roaring about the streets. The judge, however, had no intention of clapping him in jail. "You will never know the beauties of nature," said he, "if all you do is drive through it like a madman." The boy's sentence: a year-long membership in the local walking club...
...past two years, Darmstadt has grown accustomed to such unorthodox punishments meted out by Karl Holzschuh. A kindly man of 46 with a fringe of yellow hair about his bald head, he is known throughout the district as the "Chocolate Judge" because he once sentenced a little girl, convicted of stealing chocolate, to donate a candy bar each week to an orphanage. More respectful Germans, however, have another name -"The Solomon of Darmstadt" - for the man chiefly responsible for cutting the local delinquency rate...
...baker's apprentice who stole a small sum of money from his employer. Sentence: to bake a batch of Easter bunnies for the children in the Darmstadt hospital...
...boys who had "borrowed" two motorcycles. Sentence: to buy a year's subscription to Die Bruecke, a magazine for released convicts, and to take it each month to the Darmstadt prison. "Each time you go there," said the judge, "just think how terrible it would be if the big gates closed behind...