The New Review June 1935

They are musical dramas true to life of which the Gospel narrative is the theme but into which besides the Scriptural persons who keep their characters and roles the entire crowd is also introduced in the person of the Daughter of Sion and in the Chorals. [...] The prelude has three parts the first few desolate measures symbolize the outburst and almost the explosion of his grief ; the heavy repetition of the same group of notes is meant to emphasize the long duration of the grief ; but not satisfied with this Bach repeats it again in the third part this time loading every bar of the measure with two demisemiquavers and one semiquaver. [...] ra of the State ruins the State ir The Chlch recognizes with ' Omission and gtefuluess the authority of the Statc in do farit is founded and limited by the word of God. [...] The deification of race and blood the blasphemous cult of Hitler and the Nazi party the enforcement of the 'Aryan' clause which expels pastors and Church members of Jewish descent the attacks on the 'Old Testament with its Jewish morality of reward and its stories of cattle-dealers and procureurs' and the criticism of the 'theolov of the rabbi Paul' who is supposed to have falsified the doctri [...]. The opposition replies that such a centralized organization and discipline is usless and even immoral if the doctrines the life and the leadership of the Church are not moulded in conformity with the Gospel and the articles of faith.