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The leading clergy of Germany ̂ fpreach that the <u>ortd must suffer? i. juritil it accepts Teutonic rule f' pdministered by the Kaiser̂ *~** I7RRAH and Hallelujah" Is the rath­ er startling title of a new book pub­ lished, dealing with Germany's war spirit. It is written by a citizen of a neutral nation, and a theologian, J. P. Bang, D. D., professor of the­ ology at the Uplversity of Copen­ hagen, and he justifies its title by ^ •the statement that "the new Ger­ man spirit has found one of Its * most classical expressions in a col­ lection of poems published by a German pastor, Konslstorialrat Dietrich Vorwerk, under the sig­ nificant title, 'Hurrah and Hallelujah.' and I find In this combination something so absolutely char­ acteristic of the German spirit that I have adopted ft as the title for this book." \*.This book, in the opinion of Ralph Connor, Who written the preface to It, "constitutes the most terrific arraignment of Germany through her in­ tellectual and religious leaders Which has yet been put forth. Out of her own mouth It Is that she" stands before the world condemned. And the tragedy of it all is in this, that these men (whom Doctor Bang quotes) are sincere, deeply, pas­ sionately sincere. And herein consists the awful • nemesis that has after 50 years' pursuit at length overtakeh the German soul. For the crime of Germany today of which these sermons and lec­ tures convict her is not hypocrisy; but the long practice of hypocrisy has induced in her a spirit­ ual blindness which has become at once her CSlnmity and her curse." "The allies," says Doctor Bang, "have denounced the Germans as barbarians. If this were meant to imply that Germany was not a civilized nation (Kulturnation) such an accusation would, of course, be absurd. Germany is unquestionably a civilized nation and none of the spokesmen of •) the allied powers would think of denying that she has produced rich treasures of 'Kultur.' Wherever the German mind has labored, wonderful riches have been the outcome. In the most diverse do­ mains, but especially Iu those of music, of liter-* ature, of soience and religion, it would be easy to mention names that «hlne with the luster of renown throughout the whole world. But the charge of barbarism points in an entirely different direction. It points to a development within Ger­ many which has been going on with headlong rapidity, especially during the last 50 years. Even the highest Kultur can turn to barbarism when it becomes subservient to utterly false and im­ moral ideas. In Germany such a craving for power, such a worship for mere strength, has taken root and grown, that the claim of right to be a determining factor in international relations has been entirely pushed aside. A colossal and ever increasing self-admiration, a belief In the glory of all things German, the surpassing merits of the Gerihan nature (Wesen), which alone has the right to rule the world, a cynical, brutal asser­ tion that in relation to this claim all existing; treaties, all appeals to international law, all con­ sideration for Weaker peoples, are of no signifi­ cance whatever--all this we have witnessed with v juddering astonishment. Foretold Belgium'* Fate. • •"The first place Is due to Ernst Moritz Arndt, Hue great German patriot of the time of the War Liberation. As early as 1834 he declared in one of his writings that the neutrality of Belgium could not possibly be maintained In 4 future war. Hte wrote: • "'Belgium, the granary and armory, Is predes­ tined to be the battlefield In the struggle for the Meuse and the Rhine. I ask any general or states­ man who has seriously considered the problems of war and politics whether Belgium .can remain aeutral in a European war--that is to say, can be respected as neutral any longer than may appear expedient to the power which feels itself pos­ sessed of the best advantages for attack.' "The German writer. G. Traub, makes the fol­ ding Inimitable comment on the above: \ -iM'Thus an Arndt has, as far back as 80 years ago, given us absolution for this so-called breach of neutrality, having foreseen that It is here a question of higher necessities, and that Belgium herself, that "half French country," cannot pos- aibly remain neutral.' "The second German prophet Is the well-known philologist and theologian, P. de Lagarde. Already in 1874 he expressed the view that Bismarck's creation of the German empire was only an epi­ sode on the way to the formation of the Great Mid­ dle European state. He calls the German empire •Little Germany.' Even at that time Lagarde. as a German has lately put it, formulated the national Remands which the Germans, 'not with unblush­ ing arrogance, but realizing the inherent neces­ sity of the case,' must consider as the Indispen­ sable foundation for the German people's co-oper­ ation In the history of mankind. These demands are extensions of frontier both towards the East l|Bd the West. "The greatest and most popular of all the new German prophets is, however, the poet Emanuel Geibel, whose centenary has recently been cele­ brated (born 1815, died 1884). It is he who has given the classic expression to the new German hope of Germany's victorious march through the world. This has been achieved In the lines to which I have already referred, and which are quoted times without number In the newest Ger- inap war literature: *'Und es mag am deutschen Wesea "Vinmal noch die Welt genesen!' . "The world may yet again be healed by German­ ism T^tbe hope here expressed has become a cer*. tatnty for modern Germany, and the Germans see ' tn this the moral basis for all their demands. He says: "'Germany had set her mind upon building hef jpouse in peace, but then came her hereditary foe, puffed up with venom and envy. The blood so criminally shed shall be utk>n him and his brood. UTe do not dream of an easy victory; this war is d world judgment, and strong is the spirit of lies; £Ut he who was once the stronghold of our fathers *111 again see us safely through it, be assured of flUt! ^'"God, who went ^fore us in the flame of fir®, ip>w grant our people strength for the last vic­ tory, strength to root out the dark seed of Ilea, the foreign alloy, from our hearts, in faith, word |&d deed. Enter at every portal, thou strong Our imagination Is greatly taken and likewise titillated by the description of a folding bungalow Just put In opera­ tion, which mav contain two rooms or five, at tne owner's pleasured The par* titions run on ball bearings, and can shifted as easily as the trick doors and ceilings in that ancient spectacle which you may remember--Hahlon's Phantasmu, observes the St. Louis Globe-Democrat."" " * In this phantasm of a bungalow you may have a room 13 by 25 feet In case you desire to give a party or entertain your friends at a musicale. If refresh­ ments are served, the remainder of tBe house contains a kitchenette. After your guests depart, you begtn shoving partitions about--clack, clack, ctack--just like that, and two bed. chambers appear completely funilshed, the bedroom furniture opening out from the walls, where it has been as neatly packed as the wings of a but­ terfly In Its chrysalis In this wonder- ftdl structure, Vre understand, walls fold together as handily as four sec­ tions of a fire screen, with hinges work­ ing both ways. We suppose, when several persons are In the house, due warning must be given before the metamorphosis be­ gins. One wouldn't like to be shunted half-dressed from his bedroom into the parlor or dropped gently on the flower bed In the front yard by his apart­ ment unexpectedly turning wrong-side out Then, too. Is there danger of ber Ing Inadvertently packed against the celling for a whole day, and left there until evening, when the house takes on Its nocturnal shape again? The folding bungalow Impresses us as an up-to-date Improvement, only to be excelled by one that can be col­ lapsed, laid upon a truck and carried about the country whithersoever one wishes to wandfer. 9oo PROPS German spirit, which, born of light, dost show us the way to light, and establish in our midst, at once 'weapon-strong and pious, in freedom, dis­ cipline and morality, thy millennium.' The German Lord's Prayer. . "The new German spirit has found one of Its Hnost classical expressions in a collection of poems published by a German pastor, Konslstorialrat - Dietrich YTorwerk, under the significant title, 'Hur­ rah and Hallelujah.' In the first edition of I'astor Vorwerk's poems there occurred a paraphrase of tl|e Lord's Prayer, of which I will cite the last tttree petitions and the close: - " 'Though the warrior's bread be scanty, do thou IRprk daily death and tenfold woes unto the enemy. Forgive in merciful long suffering each bullet and each blow which misses its mark! Lead us not into temptation of letting our wrath be too tame in carrying out thy divine Judgment! Deliver us and our ally from the Infernal enemy and his servants on earth. Thine Is the king­ dom, the German hmd; may we, by aid of thy Steel-clad hand, achieve the power and the glory.' He thus invokes God In a battle prayer: "Thou who dwellest high above cherubim, seraphim and Zeppelins In thy heaven; thou who -art enthroned as a God of thunder In the liiklst of lightning from the clouds, and lightning from sword and cannon, send thunder, lightning, hail and tempest hurtling upon our eneiny, bestow upon us his banners, hurl hlin down Into the dark burial pits." Another poet, Fritz Philippi. has written the following poem, entitled "World-Germany:" "In the midst of the woiid war Germany lies like a peaceful garden of God behind the wall of her armies. Then the poet hears the giant strides of the new armor-clad Germany; the earth trem­ bles, the nations shriek, the old era sinks into ruin. Formerly German thought was shut up In her corner, but now, the world shall have its coat cut according to German measure ('Jetzt wlrd der Welt gemessen Der Rock nach deutschem Manss1), and as far as our swords flash and German blood flows, the circle of the earth shall come under the tutelage of German activity. "We have become a nation of wrath; we think only of the war. We execute God's almighty will ftpd the edicts of his Justice we will fulfill, ini- - bued with holy rage." Other Genuan poets revel In radiant visions of the blessings which victorious Germany is to show- ; er upon the poor, thirsty, ailing world. German Virtue "Ousties." One F. Llenhardt writes: "When these storms have done their work. Ger­ many's purest mission begins: -to become a place of refuge, a holy grove for all the seekers of the earth, a central land, a land of wisdom, a land of morals. Then will It be the flower-wreathed hospitable gateway, facing towards the glittering' East." Another. K. Hildebrand: •"* ' } "Blessings stream and How down apon those who have given themselves up to thee; there Ger­ man virtues gush limpid forth, tWre German power wells up. What a draught from this spring! Strong and deep and of high courage, the German spirit flows along, the German nature (Wesen) Bows far over the life of all nations."- Here is an extract from a German theological ' .professor, the burden of whose thesis was thai • room must be found in the world-history for that great event, the healing of the sick World by Geiv jpanism: *•' / "There are also signs that the Gennan people jbay be singled out by God to be the means of 'once again' defeating the destructive anti-Chris* Han tendencies of the age. and, in virtue of his having Intrusted them above others with his pure gospel, carrying on the course of the mission to its consummation. So much certain, that God Ik planning to do something with us. Our people are inspired by the thought that they are called Ujhh) to play a special part in the decisive hat-, tie between light and darkness, and by the hope of them standing on the side of light." In the report of an address by another German theological professor, in the Berliner Lokalan- iW (Oscar CtttM la Hew York Kvenin* Post* ceiger for November 13, 1014, we read as follows: "But the deepest and most thought-Inspiring rer suit of the war is "the German God.' Not the na­ tional God. such as the lower nations worship, but 'our God' who Is not ashamed of belonging to us, the peculiar acquirement of our heart. Max Lenz has already testified to the revelation of the *German God,' and Luther's hymn, 'Kin' feste Burg 1st unser Gott,' merely expresses the same idea in Other words." Doctor Bang then proceeds to substantiate his 'statements In detail by quotations from Germnn %ar sermons, of which we have only space for one or .two samples. H. Francke Is the author of n popular book of "war-sermons," which was ornamented with the Iron cross and published at the request of numerous members of his flock. Here Is a typical utterance of the many quoted by Doctor Bang: A Promise of the Lord. ,, "They envy us our freedom, our pow^r to do our wqrk In peace, to excel in virtue of ability, to ful­ fill our appointed task for the good of the world and humanity, to heal the world by the German nature, to become a blessing to the people of the earth. Wherever the German spirit obtains su­ premacy, there freedom also prevails. And have not our enemies to fall back upon lies and ven­ omous calumnies tn the endeavor to justify their assault In the world's eyes and their own? Does this not prove that the truth, too, is with us? Truth and freedom, those two great blessings, are In our gospel promised by the Lord himself. "Germany is, precisely--who would venture to deny It?--the representative -of the highest mo­ rality, of the purest humanity, of the most chastened Christianity. He, therefore, who fights .for Its maintenance. Its victory, fights for the , highest blessings of humanity itself and for human progress. Its defeat, its decline, would mean a falling back to the worst barbarism." Walter Lehmann Is the pastor of Hamberge in Holstein. He has preached a series of sermons which he Jias published under the title: "About the German God." The book Is ornamented with the Iron cross. In a sermon of August 23 the question 1$ put: "Who is responsible: the crazy murderer In Sara­ jevo, the weakling In chnracter and will on the Russian Imperial throne, the criminal grand dukes, our neighbors on both sides, or the deceitful Islands? -In imy case It Is not \Ve." He then lauds the Fatherland, the mother tongue--it Is for thege we are fighting, and "Germany Is the future of humanity." "He who In these days sets forth to defend the German hearth, sets forth in a holy fight ; he sets -forth to a great, Incomparable divine service, In which, indeed, one neither prays nor sings, but In which one stakes life-Itself, this single sweet, beloved life, for the life of a whole nation, a na­ tion which Is God's seed-corn for the future." In a discourse on Sedan day, September 2, he rises to loftier heights. "Unce again German sol- . diers are treading the soil of places rendered fa­ mous by the war of 1870-71. Once again German soldiers lie at St. Quentin, preparing, quietly and confidently, for the march on Paris. God writes, . Indeed, a wonderful history. "Yes, but so It Is, my friends: that glorious feat arms 44 years ago gives us courage to believe that the German soul 4s the world's soul, that God and Germany belong to one another." Here is one from Karl Kpenig, the author of "Six War Sermons,:" It Is God's WW. * » "God does not will the war, but lie wills that we, as Germans, shall will freedom, because other­ wise we cannot fulfill our great tasks In the serv­ ice of mankind, and be enabled to become a source of love and light, of truth, virtue and religion. We Germans did not will the war, but we did will * and are bound to will freedom. And because they will not let us have It, It was God's will that we Should will the a-ar. And thus we curry on the war In God's cause. In the cause of mankind, in the cause of liberty, in the cause of our dear, igreat Fatherland."--Kansas City Star. ^Landing Lights lor Aviators lows System of Signals Adopts(1 by Germans--Assistance Aviators at Night. Hie one great problem^ of the olr- plane pilot--naively, making a sMe landing at night--cppenrs to have been liol^ed by(the Germans in an Ingenious A large white light Is placed In the center of the airdrome, sunk in a pit in the ground ami covered over with a sheet of thick glass to withstand the weight of an airplane should the wheels pass over It. At a distance of about 250 feet from this light, and also sunk In the ground, are four red lights corresponding to the cardinal points of the compass. £ach of the r«* tights is connected by suhterranean cables to a wind vane, mounted on a mast or tower at some convenient point. . At night the central light glows con­ stantly, while the red light in the di­ rection of the wind that happens to be blowing also shows, indicating to the pilot the wind conditions where the landing Is to be made. It is un­ derstood that a system of altering the lights has been devised, so that an aviator has to understand the code In order to know his whereatnmts. Thus enemy airmen sre thwart«4 t*tm wak­ ing use of the lights as guides.--Scien­ tific American. Keeping Oahliaf Fresh. Dahlias will usually keep fresh sev­ eral days if the stems are thrust "Into water as hot as the hand can bear and left there until the water cools, then being placed In their regular h<»klers. Of course, the leaves must be stripped from the stem before this is done. The foliage should always be removed from the lower part of all flower stems oi itwiil fwri thew*tvria the vases. • How Eating Affects Heslth. What we eat has far more to do with our health than anything else. To be sure, regular exercise, good air and a vacation In the country will Improve the physical condition. But beyond them and above them the best setting- up exercise is the exercise of clean, Juicy, sun-cooked fruits and vegetables In the blood stream. Richer and fuller life will leap In the veins when the cir­ culation has been freed from the fa­ vorite poisons. Then there will be a test In every hour. Desire for hard work and an ability to concentrate the mind on the most arduous problems and pressing duties, pleasant or un­ pleasant, will be faced with a poise and mental clarity hardly known in the days of the stimulating poisons with their false fire and their subtle evils mining and undermining the blood stream. For the blood is the life. Friends and acquaintances armed with a knowledge of food values will no doubt launch them at your head with mufcli concern when they hear that you are giving the diet a trial.- Exchange. Woman Wrote Famous Hymn. The author of the famous hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee," was woman, Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams who was born In England In 1805. Mrs Adams was a writer of note In the English periodicals of her time on sub jects of a religious nature. She had also composed a catechism for chll dren, published In 1845. Itjs not known Just at what time nor under what cir cumstances she wrote the famous hymn. It wa# first published In 1841 and the author, dying at forty-four a few years later, never knew to what heights of fame It was to rise. Since her death the lines have been sung by untold millions the world over and translated from English Into every lan­ guage spoken by Christian communi­ ties of every race and color. Substitute for Lacquer. The scarcity of the natural lacquer of the Japanese, the sap of the tree Rhus vernicifera, has brought to no­ tice thltsl, a like product obtained by the Burmese from the black varnish tree. The substances prove to be es­ sentially Identical and thltsl Is already used as a varnish or lacquer on wood, cloth and paper, and as a cement In Bnrmese glass mosaics. A larger lacquer work field for Burma Is sug­ gested. Greek Athletes Were "Crooked." ' Crookedness among athletes was In­ vented by the Grecians. The practice Of one man allowing another to win a contest through a previous arrange­ ment was common but unpopular. A*he penalty was for the guilty one to be fined heavily, and when a certain Sum ef monev had thus been raised a monu­ ment was created with inscriptions warning others to be good. Checking the Dentist. ' The next time we get a bill from our dentist, whom we esteem fully as highly as we possibly could esteem any dentist, we are going to send It back with h request that he itemize it, showing now much of the time we are charged with was devoted to wofk and how much to conversation.--Oo» luioi»ttf» 40.) Journs1 ALCOHOL"3 PER PENT. | Similatin^lhcfbod j1iiMfetheSloff*^gl>,>rfRt*8gls<f Infants (hi i i>be> . Therein | Cheerfulness fUfUt»r optam,Morphlne nflj I MneniLNot Narcotic] i w A heli/ui Rewedy ! 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