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Church Losses in Germany

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 9, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 28.

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Church Losses in Germany

“Serious alarm is being felt in Europe,” says the Literary Digest, “over the growth of secularism and the neglect of Christian worship.” It would naturally be supposed, in view of the fact that the church in Germany is under the fostering care of the state, that it would be in a prosperous condition. Nevertheless, during the year 1906 there were twelve thousand defections from the state church, and during the year 1907 there were four thousand such defections in the city of Berlin alone. Pastor Ernst Bunk, of the Lutheran Church, attributes this condition to the spread of agnosticism and materialistic Socialism.