Der Evangelist, the weekly organ of the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Germany, makes the interesting announcement that the Fiihrer has given io,000 marks to the Methodist Church in the small German city of Schneidemiihl. In recording the fact the American paper, The Christian Century, recalls in this connexion the fact that at the Oxford Conference last summer the one voice raised in defence of Hitler was that of ,Bishop Otto Melle, the representative of that small Methodist Church in Germany, and Hitler never forgets a friend. It certainly looks as if he found this Church more ready than the Catholic or the Confessional Churches to keep within the lines—both straight and strait—which he lays down for the Church. But that hardly justifies an affirmative answer to the question which The Christian Century asks (" not too seriously "), "Will Hitler adopt the Methodists ? "
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