The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-10-17
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWS
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME

/ Summary Of the Most Important Hap.
penings In the Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.
Three thousand Lutherans from the
| leading countries of Europe and the
United States filed st. Lawrence
church, in Nurnberg, to hear the con-
vention sermon Of the fourteenth
| world conference. This church was
built in the middle Of the thirteenth
century, gothic, and decorated with
| paintings, statuary, wood carving and
bronze relief The sermon was by DR..
| Althaus of LeipZis, a master preacher
| in Germany; the altar service by one
of the Nurnberg city missionaries. The
rich liturgicaI service and the German
choral were heard under the most ia
vorable conditions Afterwards a large
audience crowded the beautiful city
! hall auditorium to hear the formal
opening Of the convention by the pres
ident, Dr. Ludwig Ihmels. Here the
president of the Protestant consistory
Of the kingdom Of Bavaria and the
mayor of Nurnberg brought official
| greetings The interest of the conven-
| ton centered chiefly in these three
phases of church life; The confess
sional, the special problems of meth
DDS and results. Prof. Theodore Zahn
OF Erlangen university presented the
| first subject and gave the keynote Of
the conference III a paper on "Why
Must We Hold Fast to the Comics
sion?" With characteristic German
thoroughness he reviewed the latest
utterances on the theological questions
! and made an impressive plea for re-
| tention of the simple faith Of the
apostles. He expressed the conviction
that the time especially and the i'm
mediate problems Of the church de-
manded "a Christianity, not a religion
! for hermit, not an academic opinion
| but a community building and con
| structive religion, which develops it.
self from the gospel through which all
men may expect the grace of God in
| Christ" His summary was brief: "Je-
sus the Christ-this is the simple and
averroturning short confessional state
ment Of the Evangelical Christian
| faith. The resurrection of Christ did
| not only precede the apostolic preach
| Ing in time, but was it's foundation"
| The address by Baron Won Pechmann
Of Munchen, a prominent jurist, bank
| er and churchman in South Germany,
On More Lay Service in the Church"
was significant of increasing lay &C
| tivity in many quarters.
| The Prince Max Egon zu Fuersten~
| burg is the head of the so-called
Princes Trust" which has just got
into financial difficulties. 1t is re-
ported that the prince will mortgage
his estate to borrow money to pay his
debts. His Indebtedness to the
| Deutsche bank runs into the mil
| lions. He and his associates re-
lied on their intimacy with the kaiser
! to give them an advantage in the
| financial world and for years they
have fought the Deutsche bank But
yolyed that they had to ask the as,
sistance Of the bank.
Budapest.-The authorities appear
at last to be alive to the gravity Of the
cholera situation. They are institut-
! ing effective preventive measures, in
Guiding the examination of all railway
| passengers and consignments of food
and the close inspection OF houses in
| the tenement districts thu hitherto
have escaped attention. Many of the
schools are closed. A special black
lacQuered automobile is used by the
sanitary authorities to transport sus-
pected cases to the hospital
Munchen-Princes Augustine Vic
toria, wife Of former King Manuel of
Portugal, was ordered by her physi-
clans to return to the hospital and
tremain there for some time, as she
needs a complete rest. She is suffer
| ing from influenza, following a chill
caught during an excursion in the Ba-
varian Alps. Her condition is not Sc
rious, but the doctors consider it ad-
visable for her not to travel to Sig
marfngen at present, as she had in
| tended doing.
Baron Conrad Won HotZendorf, the
head of the general staff CT the armies
of Austria Hungary, will have to re-
tire from his position, because there
was a serious misunders tanding be-
tween him and Franz Fen dinand, the
heir apparent, during the recent ma
neuvers. 1t is said that E4 will be sue
ceeded by Hungarian.
Plans and specifications made by
Richard Steidle, Berlin architect, for
hospital in Porto Allegro, Brazil, have
been accepted. The architects Of the
whole world had been asked to com
pete.
Kaiser Wilhelm has s'ubbornly de
manded the reconstrri : ion of the
famous Heidelberg casti9, which was
ruined by the French, n / the people
Of Heidelberg were eGe lly stubborn
in their opposition. low Professor
Won Duhn claims the h3nor of haT-
ing converted tee kaiser. He said to
the kaiser: IF the - mage is re-
paired thousands of students will for