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German booksellers did roaring business last week when there appeared on the market an antiSemitic, Nazified version of The Gospel According to St. John, adapted from Martin Luther's standard German translation of the Bible. This was big news for Nordic churchgoers, because the man responsible for the metamorphosis of St. John into an up-to-date Nazi was none other than Dr. Heinz Weidemann, Bishop of Bremen, who is no black sheep of the German Evangelical Church but one of its prime spiritual forces...
Most subtly effective in damning the Jews is Bishop Weidemann's new Gospel. Says the Bishop in his preface: "The German of the Third Reich must know what Christ, Whom the Jews nailed to the cross, means." More than once the phrase "The Jews jeered and said'' appears in the new Nazified version instead of "Then said the Jews," as in the Lutheran version. "Jewland" takes the place of the original "Judea" and this "Jewland" is carefully distinguished from the province of Galilee, where Christ preached. The implication is that this was not in "Jewland." Throughout...
...blessings, this one stands high, that you are able to take up the refrain into your own life. With the confidence of the people of this diocese, which will, I know, ripen into affection, you will go in and out among them carrying the gospel of a joyful, grateful service, singing to yourself, 'Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His Holy Name...
...could be accomodated. Harvard's Puritan fathers went even further to lure the Indians into the college where they might be instilled with Christianity. For besides having their own dormitory, most of the aborigines had their expenses paid by friends who were formed into a "Society for Propagating the Gospel", in favor of which odd amounts of pounds and shillings are listed on the old budgets...
This commencement was part of the 14th International Convention of Sister Aimee's Foursquare Gospel Church. Delegates from 357 U. S. and Canadian churches, foreign missionaries and 12,000 Los Angeles faithful heard Mrs. McPherson preach thrice daily, attended a Pentecostal Fire Rally lasting from 6 a. m. until midnight and involving shouting, ''speaking in tongues," sermons on such subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which...