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Last week 182 of the 240 delegates to the Evangelical synod voted a resolution of confidence in the bishop. Even his longtime critic, East Berlin Theologian Heinrich Vogel, shook Dibelius' hand. Said he: "Now the essential thing is that Christians, even in periods of hard struggle, find their way together again as brothers."
* "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God."