Re: Bernhard Kühn and the Evangelical Alliance Magazine

Megan R. wrote:

> 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. 
> 

Whether Eberhard offered his services (which is rather unlikely) or
someone 
else recommended him is of little importance. Bernhard Kühn took him on as

a writer for the magazine and can be credited with having promoted 
Eberhard’s fruitful and many-sided talent for writing.