Negotiations regarding a proposed law in the Thuringian provincial parliament to exclude the Old Testament from the religious instruction because the Jewish spirit of the Old Testament is not fit for the Christian spirit, are being carried on by the Thuringian minister of education, W. Frick, with teachers and clergymen.
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