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Szkic działalności opiekuńczo-wychowawczej ewangelickiej Misji Wewnętrznej w Gdańsku w I połowie XX w.

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Żukowska L.

Gdański Rocznik Ewangelicki

2013

vol. 7

140-159

The Inner Mission in the evangelical church was an organized and diverse establishment for the provision of aid, which was dispensed by foundations, institutions, clergymen or lay people to all those who were in need because of life difficulties. Its work encompassed hospitals, shelters for travelers and the homeless, old people’s homes, children’s homes, youth hostels, kindergartens and also social care for prisoners, seamen, immigrants and other needful social groups. Its main motto was taken from evangelical words saying that faith without deeds is dead. It must be emphasised, however, that the central idea of the Mission was to link charity work with the evangelization of its charges. In Danzig, as in Germany, the beginning of the Inner Misssion stemmed from the mid-nineteenth century. It was strictly connected with the activities of the Diakon Sisters (Die Diakonissen), who were engaged in all its works. In Danzig the main foundation led by the sisters was the Diakons’ Maternal House and Hospital (Diakonissen Mutter und Krankenhaus). Here over four hundred sisters were trained for various Mission works and worked at a hospital which served people of all faiths and conditions. As the documents are scanty it is impossible to present a complete picture of all the Mission’s works. That is why this article is no more than a general study of its activities in Danzig. The most important foundations were: the Diakons’ Maternal House and Hospital, the Wiktoria Augusta Foundation and Paulinum, the boys’ refuge.

Dahlemickie kazanie Otto Eichela wygłoszone w kościele św. Jana w Gdańsku w październiku 1934 r.

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Żukowska L.

Gdański Rocznik Ewangelicki

2014

vol. 8

135-149

The sermon preached by Otto Eichel in Danzig in October 1934 is the prime example of a sermon delivered by a pastor of the Confessing Church to his parishioners. The sermon is worth quoting for many reasons. Firstly, there are very few sermons left in the preserved documents of the Danzig Consistorium. Secondly, it was given in a particular time, several days after the Dahlem Synod, a dozen or so months after the seizure of power by the Nazis. Finally, Otto Eichel himself was a very interesting person. He was an ordinary priest who never held any significant posts in the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, and then a member of the Confessing Church who served in St. John’s during the whole time of the Nazi rule in the Free City of Danzig. Otto Eichel was certainly an outstanding personality – courageous and caring about his parishioners and about the purity of teaching based on the Bible and the Reformation. He remained with his diminishing number of parishioners to the very end, even in the very difficult time of the last months of the war in 1945. During his Sunday services participants were informed frankly about the situation of the Church in Germany, about the synods of the Confessing Church and the Council of Brethren’s resolutions. Those priests who were imprisoned and harassed by the Gestapo were prayed for. His firm attitude, stemming from the beliefs resulting from the Dahlem faction of the Confessing movement caused him a lot of problems. He was forced to take a leave, was fined and harassed by the Gestapo. His sermon, certainly one among many others, is a testimony to his definite attitude in a totalitarian state, his opposition against the violation of the Church and human rights. By analyzing the sermon line by line the reader gets a clear insight into the construction of this document, its content and the arguments used.

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Szkic działalności opiekuńczo-wychowawczej ewangelickiej Misji Wewnętrznej w Gdańsku w I połowie XX w.

Dahlemickie kazanie Otto Eichela wygłoszone w kościele św. Jana w Gdańsku w październiku 1934 r.