# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Dezember 1909_S559
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Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 559

religious services ever held in this or ang other eituv. S* Christian minis-
ters. oñf as manx different denominations. and one Jewish Rabbi, in turn
oecupied the pulpit of Temple Keneéseth Israel, last night, and in eight-
minute addresses preached the ne7 gospel of religious fellowship. Letters
were read from threée other ministers who were unable to attend, making
the total number of denominations represented from the platform ten.“
Ansprachen wurden gehalten von einem Hicksiten-Quäker, einem Presby⸗
terianer, einem Unitarier, einem Universalisten, einem Methodisten, von
D. Delk, Rabbi Krauskopf, Rabbi George W. Ochs, Rabbi D. Isaak
Landman und andern. ½e Yress sagt: The addresses were typical of
theé spirit of the oecasion. emphasizing the idea that the séeking of reli-
gious and moral ideals, which. after all, on examination proved to be
very much the same. although repreésented under diflerent forms and
sought be different paths, with diflerent rituals and embodiéd in different
créeds. Ought to bé à ground of déeper fellowship rather than disunion
among men. Mr. Oehs referred to the services as one of the greéat land-
marks in the historg of Philadelphia in the sphere of religious freedom
and toleration. Mr. Wilbur looked on the meeting as being sa struggle
for a common uplift.) ... The religious world, he said. Das improved
its manners and is now evergwhere hehaving better than it did of old
time.“ Dr. Forbes struck most deeply the note of liberality: God, Wwhom
We all worship, is too large for our deéfinition. I could not worsbip a God
„Who could be shut up in aà praxer-book or embodied in a cçonfession of
faith or summed up in a créeed. We should talk less of saving souls and
morée of saving people. The religion tbat will win men who think is the
religion of the present, thaf teaches men to be manly, children to obey
their parents, and that makes good citizens.“ Dr. Krauskopf said: To-
night's gathering is a propheey that the narrowness that has been shall
never be again, that the more the differing créeds will see of their many
agréeements the less disunion will thereé be among them, because of minor
diflerences; that the more they will meet the more they will see that
back of differing forms stands the belief in the same common God.““
Unter diese Juden, Unitarier und Leugner der Gottheit Christi und der
Seligkeit allein durch den Glauben an Christi stellbertretendes Leben, Leiden
und Sterben mischt sich brüderlich D. Delk. Und statt Rabbi Krauskopf
und seinen Genossen Buße zu predigen, bestärkt er sie in ihrem Unglauben
durch die Erklärung, auch er freue sich, daß das Vorurteil, welches bisher
Juden und Christen getrennt habe, gehoben sei. I come as your friend,
rejoicing in the fact that the name of my Master is honored by your
pastor“ (Rabbi Krauskopf). Auch der Lutheran bezeichnet diese Verleug—
nung D. Delks als einen Klecks. Von einem Protest gegen D. Delks Ge⸗
meinschaft mit offenbaren Christusleugnern haben wir aber weder im
LVNeran Observer noch in der Lutheran World etwas gelesen. Welch eine
Versumpfung des Luthertums, wo solche Dinge in einer Synode durchgehen
können ohne allgemeinen Protest und Kirchenzucht! Und wie können
Lutheraner in der Generalsynode und im Konzil noch mit D. Delk und
Genossen fraternisieren? Denn daß D. Delk und seine Gemeinde nicht
allein steht, geht hervor aus dem 8t. Andre Herald, dem Lokalblatt einer
ebenfalls zur Generalshnode gebörigen Gemeinde in Philadelphia, in dem
es Seite 5 f. also lautet: We congratulate our Jewisb brethren on the