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 THE GERMAN INNER MISSION 73

court chaplaincy because his politics did not please them. 1 The highest authorities of the church have recently forbidden pastors to bring politics into their professional life. 3 The way seems hedged up on every side. But the ideal of a state ruled by Christ will not soon be expelled from consciousness. The Evangelical Social Congress, organized in 1889, offers a fair platform for discussion, and its reports are very able documents of the move- ment. The university men are comparatively free to speak and write. Such men as Professors Wagner, Schmoller and Schulze- Gavernitz join eminent authority as economists to deep interest in the religious life of the people, and they are prominent in the Evangelical Congress.

This article completes the preliminary survey of the German Inner Mission. In subsequent articles the particular method of social service will be subjected to a more detailed and technical treatment. In "Notes and Abstracts" recent developments will be illustrated from new publications and periodicals.

C. R. HENDERSON. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.

'See Flitgende Blatter, a. d. Rauhen Hause, May 1896.

Press report of May 16, 1896. The Emperor sends this message : "The clergy must not meddle with politics." To which Dr. Stocker is said to have replied : "Since Christian social thought was tabooed in Berlin, socialism reigns politically there. As I have begun, so shall I continue. I leave the end to God."