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Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...
...Sunday came a desperate outburst of pastors opposed to the spiritual dictatorship of Dr. Müller. Their Council of Brothers, organized after he squashed their Pastors' Emergency League, circulated secretly a bold manifesto which such stalwarts as fashionable Berlin Pastor Dr. Martin Niemöller read out from their pulpits to packed congregations. Denouncing the Reichsbischof's hand-picked Synod as "an assemblage organized in open violation of the Church constitution," the Council of Brothers manifestoed: "In all responsibility before God, we, therefore, declare to churches and their members: Obedience to this church regime means disobedience...
...Thornwell Jacobs, 57, president of Atlanta's Oglethorpe University, tipped the scales at 150 Ib. Dr. Witherspoon Dodge, 47, pastor of Atlanta's "Radio Church," weighed in at 135 Ib. The purse was $200, which Preacher Dodge said President Jacobs owed him for part-time teaching at Oglethorpe. The ring was President Jacobs' office. There were no spectators...
...after an appendectomy, went to President Jacobs to complain about the nonpayment of his salary, demanded $200. President Jacobs reminded him that since June 1, 1932 the University had dropped set salaries, paid its faculty only what it could afford from time to time. Nevertheless Preacher Dodge, who was pastor of Atlanta's Central Congregational Church until parishioners tired of his advanced religious views, needed the money and thought he should have it. One morning last week wiry little Preacher Dodge marched into wiry little President Jacobs' office for a showdown...