Word: hermannsburg
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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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...