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Evening came and the hour for the momentous sermon. Huge crowds jammed every seat in St. Matthew's Church and packed the streets outside. Suddenly guards discovered that the good Bishop was not in his study, nor in his bedroom, nor in his parlor, nor in his bathroom. In fact he was nowhere in his house. Slyly he had skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit...
Noon of the day of the scheduled sermon secret police and blackcoated S. S. Troopers suddenly piled into the residence of Bishop Meisser. He was placed under arrest, forbidden to leave his house, told that he had been removed as head of his diocese. Remembering lessons learned in last June's "blood purge," the S. S. Troopers were careful to offer no threats to the Bishop's person, to give him complete liberty within the building. Bishop Hans Meisser puttered quietly up & downstairs all afternoon...
...chaplain in Königsberg, marched into the Cathedral escorted by black-uniformed special guards. A straggling 4,000 cried "Heil!" at the altar, which was flanked with swastika and German Christian banners. Dr. Müller recited the Apostles' Creed, mentioned Martin Luther and Hitler, preached a sermon on sin and forgiveness. Six hundred loyal pastors and state bishops attended, some of them giving Nazi salutes. Notably absent were representatives of foreign churches and the Bishops of Bavaria and Württemberg-last two of the 28 state synods which Reichsbischof Muüller attempted forcibly to incorporate...
Take down the "Fourth Eclectic" from the shelf, used in grammar schools. Here are ninety selections in prose and poetry. Familiar names catch the eye, Celia Thaxter Lucy Larcom, J. T. Trowbridge, James Buchanan Road, Lowell, Longfellow. Here is a part of the Sermon On the Monat. There is a scene from Tom Brown's Schooldays and again a part of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy. Here also...
Suddenly Dr. Shields' radio listeners heard the sermon interrupted by shouts, shrieks, coarse language. In the church, the Jarvis Street Baptists craned their necks, gasped. Past dumbfounded ushers and straight down the aisle marched a woman and a young man. They both behaved as if they were drunk. Right in front of Dr. Shield's pulpit, while he glowered speechless, the pair pushed aside indignant worshippers, began heckling the preacher. Cried he: "Get out! Get out! Leave the church! Call the police!" Ushers and male Baptists descended upon the two. "You're a hypocrite!" shrilled the woman...