Berlin, Feb, 19, The vital principles issd dow by Blartin Luther for the go ernment of the German Protes ant Church are abolished by three decrees issued by eicht-Bishop Mueller, Primate of the United Evangelical Church.
"The decrees, among. other things, abolish the oflets of the president and vice-president of the" Prussian Supreme Church Council leaving' Reichsbisho Mueller in''sole centrale minister of a Prussian Protest-They alto yo vide that any ant. Church can be transferred to'anather church, contrary the Lutherian practice of allo ug congregations to call'th addition, any. pastor tired. on' pension, thus ug echelon Stade his administrations "Rewer, pastors epposin its members to ce-operate whole heartedly with the Church and State leaders.
The Emergency League, which at one time comprised about half the number of German Protestant clergymen, was founded some ago to oppose to radical ter pretation of the Gospel and the application of the Aryan clause in the Church which was demanded by the German Christian Move ment—Trans-Ocean Kuo Mit (Our Oven Corres. ruin in this connection eon
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