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German Minister Sees Christain Total Diminishing
(Editor's note: After World
War I. former U-boat com
mander Martin Niemoeller
joined the Protestant clergy
and in a little more than a
decade became one of Ger
many's best-known t h e o 1 o
gians. During the Nasi era.
he spent seven years in a con
centration camp for actively
opposing Hitler. He resumed
his ministry after World War
II and now is one of six presi
dents of the World Council of
Churches. Dr. Niemoeller re
cently discussed his views on
the role of the Christian
church in the contemporary
world with a UPI reporter.
A report on that conversation
follows.)
By FREDERICK H. TREESH
United Press International
Garden City. N.Y. (UPS
One of the world's most emi
nent Protestant churchmen
offers this thought to Ameri
can Christians for Lenten
meditation: It is foolhardy to
feel secure that your religion
and your western culture will
prevail in a changing world.
"Every day the percentage
of Christians in the world de
creases and this will con
tinue,'' said the Rev. Dr. Mar
tin Niemoeller. a president of
The World Council of
Churches.
Nationalism in non - Chris
tian, non-white countries of
the world is ending an era of
Christian predominance, said
Dr. Niemoeller, who heads
the G e r m a n Evangelican
church and is one of six mem
bers of the presidium of the
World Council.
Decline Seen
"The so-called Christian
nations the w h i t e nations,
will decline in relative num
bers, influence, power and re
sources." the German clergy
man said. "By the end of this
century there will be more
than 5 billion non-whites and
less than 2 billion whites
among the world's popu
lation." The non-white nations
mainly are non-Christian.
The present ratio of whites to
non-whites is 3 to 2.
Is this a matter of grave
concern, perhaps despair, for
the contemporary Christian?
No. declares Dr. Nie
moeller. "We need not be afraid. If
we arc afraid, it is because
we trusted in our superiority
in numbers, not in Christ."
Christian Duly
The Christian's duty, said
Dr. Niemoeller, is not to feel
falsely secure in the belief
that his religion will convert
the world, nor is it to make
plans and strategems for per
petuating the church as a
physical institution. It is to
trust in his faith as a personal
relationship between him and
God and between himself and
, his fellow beings.
Dr. Niemoeller discussed ,
t with United Press Interna
tional his views on the role
of the Christian church in a
world of exploding popula
tion and nationalism during
a visit to this Long Island
community to keynote a
Popularity of
President Down,
Palmer HoytSays
Portland - fUPD - President
j Kennedy's popularity has But
! fered a "pronounced decline"
and America is in a "crisis of
i confidence." according to Pal
! mer Hoyt, editor and publish.
er of the Denver Post.
Addressing t h e Portland
Knife and Fork club. Hoyt at
! tributed the drop in the Presi
j dent's popularity to the Cuban
situation, controversial pro-
posals for tax cuts and re-
forms, and charges of im
i proper "news management."
He said America must re
I capture a sense of motion and
j of confidence in its presi
dential leadership "in this
time of international hazard."
I He said the crisis o confi-
dence was complicating the
exercise of presidential lead
j ership.
j Haiy Program
Since the popular Cuban
j quarantine that forced Russia
j to withdraw offensive mis
siles from Cuba, Hoyt said,
I the administration's Cuba
policy had slipped into "a
somewhat hazy program."
"Managed news." w h i c h
Hoyt said governments had
tried since George Washing
ton, caused an uproar based
on the administration's at
tempt to rationalize the prac
tice and to play favorites in
news dissemination.
"No administration before
has announced that it tries to
mislead the public as a mat
ter of high policy," he said.
He urged the administra
tion to adopt a "straightfor
ward news policy," announc
ing that it will withhold in
formation of help to an en
emy but will release all other
news promptly to all media.
world mission weekend at the . must
Garden Citv Community I their
church. The German theolo
gian is spending the entire
Lenten season in the United
States, making appearances
throughout the country.
To honor God's command
ments, a Christian must love
his fellow man as a brother
and God's love does not re
spect national boundaries nor
racial origins. Dr. Niemoeller
said.
Combat Hunger
"You cannot love your
neighbor and see him hun
gry. If you love your neigh
bor you have a responsibility
for his body as well as his
soul," said the 71-year-old
clergyman, a man of diminu
tive stature but great per
sonal magnetism.
The cold war is a mockery
of God's wishes and all the
blame cannot be laid at the
door of communism, said Dr.
Niemoller. Nor. despite the
anti-God nature of commu
nism, can it be said that reli
gion is being stamped out be
hind the iron curtain, he said.
"We have more atheists in
West Germany and In the
western world than there arc
in East Germany or Russia,"
said Dr. Niemoeller.
He said that on a visit to
the Soviet Union several
years ago he asked an oid
communist official what per
centage of the Russian peo
ple still believed in the ortho
dox church.
Russians Religious
"He evaded by question
twice. The third time I asked,
he shook his head and said.
'There is no statistic . . .
maybe Ii5 per cent,' " the
balding, bespectacled clergy
man said. Tile patriarch of
the Russia church estimated
75 per cent.
Then Dr. Niemoeller re
called a conversation with
his Soviet interpreter, a
young man in his thirties.
"He beamed when I asked
him about his family; he was
married and had two daugh
ters. I said to him. "1 assume
your daughters are not bap
tized.' "He became furious! I
tlio'ight that was some in
sight into the Russian peo
ple's feeling about religion."
i Next, Dr. Niemoeller talked
about East Germany.
"The East Germans' hopes
! for reunification have been
! gone for four or five years
: now. Nobody believes now
! that the West will save him.
For 12 years, they waited pa
I tiently but now they feel they
do something about
lives without waiting
for the political situation to
change.
Closer to God
"They now feel themselves
closer to God They feel a
personal bond to God. They
have come to ask a deeper
question: What is uur duty in
this relationship'.'"
Before and during the first
World War. Martin Niemoel
ler was an officer in the
Geman Navy, commanding a
U-boat. After the war. he en
tered the Protestant clergy
and. in the 1930's. his book.
From U-Boat to Pulpit," w as
a worldwide best seller.
He rebelled against the
Nazi demands against the
Christian conscience and, in
1937, was cast into prison.
Dr. Niemoeller. pastor of one
of Berlin's major churches,
spent the next seven years in
concentration camps S a edi
senhausen and Dachau.
In 1939, he authored a
book with the Nazi-baiting
title of "God Is My Fuehrer "
No Hero
But, at war's end. Pastor
Niemoeller did not emerge
from the prison camps a hero
at least not to himself. Had
the German Christians done
enough to thwart power-hungry,
super-racist aims of Nazi
national socialism which led
to global war? Had he per
sunally dune enough?
For months after his lib
eration. Dr. Niemoeller said,
he was haunted by this
dream: He looked into a
bright light and heard a
voice ask someone apparent
ly near him. "What can you
say for yourself for doing
these terrible things?"
Another voice he recog
nized it as that of Adolf Hit
ler replied. "I didn't know
about the gospel . . . nobody
told me."
Then, Dr. Niemoeller re
calls, he awoke, trembling
and expecting the strange
voice to :.sk him, "Why didn't
you tell him?"
Thus, the clergyman who
opposed Hitler, whose faith
was unshaken by seven yeais
in a Nazi concentration camp,
remembered the 30 minutes
he had once spent with the
fuehrer. He asked himself;
had he done enough?
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