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Reasons for the decline in membership, said Dr. Mudge, were that 9,504 Siamese Presbyterians were transferred from the Synod of New York to the new National Christian Church of Siam; 70,693 Presbyterians were placed on the inactive or suspended list; the rolls were closed for the year before Easter when numerous new members are generally received...
President The Pittsburgh Synod...
From Berlin had come Dr. August Jaeger, Realm Bishop Miiller's legal adviser. With chin out, Dr. Jaeger, surrounded by four detectives and a squad of secret police, stomped into the Lutheran Synod Hall, demanded the keys of the safe and proceeded to lay down the law. One elderly pastor remained seated at the Nazis' entrance. "ON YOUR FEET!" bellowed Dr. August Jaeger...
Morally this was indeed a blow to Dr. Müller, but the Reichsbischof, knowing perfectly well that his acts have been illegal for months, recently had them retroactively confirmed by an act of his hand-picked Church Synod which has yet to be tested in the courts...
...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...