I don't. What did they say to do?
I thought i had heard it in a powerful sermon by Dr. Lawrence White, but it not there in the online text version i found. Instead, it was related by Dobson in his newaletter (July 2001) in describing a conversation with Diet Eman, (see http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Diet_Eman) author of Things We Couldn’t Say, with a member of the Focus on the Family staff:
Diet told a story about a rail line that ran nearby and was used by the Nazis to transport boxcars jammed with Jews and other “undesirables.” They were on their way to the death camps in the East. Many times, the trains were sidetracked for hours while the miserable people begged pitifully for food, water and mercy. There were no bathroom facilities for the journey, which could last four days or longer. Nearby, I’m told, was a small church located close enough to the rail line to hear the cries coming from within the boxcars. The church people attending services were deeply disturbed by these mournful “distractions,” and so, they began singing more loudly so they wouldn’t have to hear them. I wonder what the God of all compassion thought about His followers as they used their worship to drown out the calls for help from tortured people. - http://ldolphin.org/family.html
The short sermon by White is still a powerful read, and i am sure it has appeared on FR. See it here. http://www.hiswayministries.org/fdsilence.htm
It appears, however, that he did get an attribution wrong, that to Pliny of the quote,
“The common people find all religions to be true. The philosophers find all religions to be false. The rulers [politicians] find all religions to be useful.”
This is attributed to Seneca (ca. 4 BC –AD 65), with similar expressions being given by Gibbons, and Lucretius (94 BC - 49 BC), but timeless in general application.
The preceding goes with this:
Turn Up The Music!
By Chris Hansen
In Germany, the churches sang their hymns, as the trains would rumble by!
Cars, and more cars, were stuffed with Jews, heading for death camps, where they would die!
The trains, the trains, made the church music, difficult to hear.
The trains, the trains, they drew too near.
The pastors had a practical solution, have no fear!
The pastors decided that, the music, the pretty music, must ring forth, loud and clear.
So, they directed, turn up the music, as the congregation sings!
Sing louder, sing louder, to the King of Kings.
Singing sweet hymns and fellowship, just a few of our favorite things.
How easily we Christians criticize Germany, as we proclaim with pride,
That we would never have stood by while Jewish people died!
And what do we do when silent death rips babies from the womb?
What do we do when millions are swallowed without so much as a tomb!
We too, turn the music louder, and sing to the King of Kings.
We see not, that God’s wrath is off stage, pacing in the wings!