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...federal poverty program. The drive is also supported by such diverse groups as the American Bar Association, the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund and Columbia University's Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law. The lawyers' aim is to make sure that welfare workers and agencies obey the rule of law, not just their own notion of what is good for welfare recipients. Responding, the Health, Education and Welfare Department has come out for the same thing. It recently commanded the states to pay far closer attention to "the constitutional and statutory rights of recipients...
...liberalism with anti-semitism and nationalism. Resistance was organized under the leadership of Pastor Martin Niemoeller in the Pastor's Emergency Federation, and at the Barmen Synod the declaration was adopted according to which Jesus Christ is the only Word of God that men are to hear, trust, and obey. The pastors were harrassed, arrested, deported, called into military service, prevented from conducting services, not allowed to train theological students, and their churches were pacified by a government Ministry for Church Affairs. They were harrassed for over 12 years, until the end of the Second World...
...political and social issues that are close by whenever theological statements are made. Barmen, in Germany in 1934, was the meeting place of the first Synod of the Confessing Church. The Synod said Jesus Christ is the only Word of God that men are to hear, trust, and obey; the Synod condemned the suggestion that there might be any source for the church's proclamation other than revelation...
...troubles of the German Pastors and their people in the Confessing Church cannot be compared to the suffering of Germany's Jews. But the Synod made a declaratory statement about whom they would hear, trust, and obey which is one part of the Book of Confessions and the principal model for the Confession...
...weight of these sad times we must obey...