# Der Lutheraner_Frankfurt am Main_Juni 1948_S47
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Number 6                                                    June 1948                                                    Page 47

closed, brotherly manner and received their answers with a view to the Gospel. The evening gatherings contributed chiefly to the fact that pastors and course participants very soon became acquainted with one another and grew together into a living fellowship, which showed itself in the work. Thus all received with grateful joy teachings, suggestions and pointers which they will make use of as equipment in their daily work, where each one stands alone on his own.

In honor of the guests, a congregational evening with addresses, songs, and trombone performances was held on the intervening Sunday, Jubilate.

55th Meeting of the Synod
of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church in Berlin-Steglitz
from 25 to 27 May 1948.

Still quite under the fresh impression of the days experienced, I write this report. And so "my first feeling" can only be praise and thanks toward the merciful God, who gave His divine success gloriously to a great venture undertaken in trust in Him. After a ten-year pause, brought about by the war and its horrors, we were permitted for the first time again to gather for a meeting of the Synod of our whole church and to bring it to a happy and complete success! What this means in a land that still lies under the spell of the horrors it has endured and still bleeds from a thousand wounds, in a land that to this hour has no peace and is crisscrossed and torn apart by the zone boundaries of the occupying powers, can only be measured by one who, like us, has in these days once made the journey from west to east or vice versa. How many paths and negotiations with the authorities, in order to obtain an interzonal pass, travel permit, travel authorization, and ticket! How many hardships and troubles on the overcrowded