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London, First Sunday in Advent, December 3, 1933.
As Bonhoeffer stood up to preach on Advent Sunday 1933, people in churches throughout England were grieving a disaster. The News Chronicle had been reporting daily on a gas explosion and roof collapse at a mine in Derbyshire, on November 19: "Bands of rescuers in gas masks descended the pit immediately, some in their 'Sunday' clothes, and worked three hours with pick and shovel before the first body was reached. " In all, fourteen men, imprisoned a mile underground, died waiting to be freed.