Re: Bernhard Kühn and the Evangelical Alliance Magazine

Bruderhof wrote:

> The focal point of this revival in Halle became the fellowship on the
> Alte Promenade, which met in the reconstructed studio of the painter
> Sallwürk. It is possible that Eberhard founded this fellowship
> himself, or was at least a co-founder. There is proof that he worked
> in a responsible capacity in it for a number of years.
> 

A frequent guest in this group was Bernhard Kühn, secretary for the 
Evangelical Alliance House in Bad Blankenburg. Kühn was a simple man,
small 
and physically deformed. He was anything but an intellectual, yet he 
possessed immense charisma. He edited the Evangelical Alliance Magazine, 
the mouthpiece for the Evangelical Alliance center. The magazine did not 
have a wide circulation – about four thousand in 1907. But Kühn’s Free 
Brethren background quickly became a bone of contention because he lacked 
any understanding or sympathy for the state church, and he forcefully 
pronounced his criticisms right and left. In spite of this, or perhaps
even 
because of it, the Evangelical Alliance Magazine served as a first-rate 
pulpit and was attentively read.