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Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver. He also did odd jobs for the Lutheran mission at tiny (pop. 242) Hermannsburg, 1,300 miles northwest of Sydney. The missionaries paid him in clothes and rations of European food, with which Albert supplemented the native "bush tucker" of kangaroo meat, honey ants and fat grubs...
Today, 51-year-old Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's most popular and successful artists. His bright, pleasant watercolors of the rugged scenery around Hermannsburg sell in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaïde and Brisbane for as much as $170, and last year he earned about $5,000 from the products of his brush...
Modest Approach. Thus last week began the 93rd meeting on Christianity for laymen in the Lower Saxony town (pop. 5,000) of Hermannsburg. There are nine other Evangelische Akademien like it in Germany, and together they constitute one of the most vigorous Christian activities to develop there since...
...after the technicians arrived at Hermannsburg's 200-year-old former inn, the lectures began. "Too many Christians," said Pastor Hans Juergen Baden of nearby Wienhausen, "think about the church as they would a doctor-only to be used in times of distress. Immediately after the war, in those grim days of defeat, the churches were full. Many of us, witnessing this, held high hopes of a rebirth ... of Christianity in Germany. But alas, we were wrong." But Pastor Baden is still hopeful: "The road to God is a long one, but even the most modest approach...