Text transcribed from caption: P-30827 GERMAN ECUMENICAL RECEPTION HONORS NCC LEADER BERLIN-Bishop Reuben H. Mueller of Indianapolis, Ind., president of the National Council of Churches in the U. S. A. (second right), was guest of honor at a reception following an ecumenical service in Kaiser Friedrich Memorial church in West Berlin. The American churchman, head of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, was on an overseas Holy Week visit to U. S. servicemen in Germany and Spain. Preaching the sermon at the service, Bishop Mueller denounced the Berlin Wall as symbolic of man’s failure to understand and accept the Christian Gospel. Shown left to right: the Rev. H. Rees-Davis, minister of the Anglican church in Berlin; the Rev. H. Janson, minister of the Swedish Lutheran church in Berlin; Anglican Bishop A. A. B. Dilbar Hans of Chota Nagpur, India; the Rev. H. M. Helbich, general superintendent of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg; Bishop Mueller; and J. Madiba, a leading layman of the Transvaal Evangelical Church in South Africa. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (KV-BER-4B-64-NAB)
