The Saint Paul globe., 1898-10-23

| by Rev. Clifton Hardy Levy
What is the real aim of Emp ro- VIII
! liam in going to Palestine? No che
who has studied his character, poseur
! though he be, will say that it is done
! m@rely for effect. Call the la' ser wnat
you will. he is not fool. What ten,
/ is the inner purpose of this pilgl image?
j Perhaps there is a double purpose in
the fertile brain of the young emperor.
In the first place, the kaiser un-
! doubtedly hopes to realize a Germ an
: dream, Which has lasted for aim st
a century. Frederick William III was
] the trst to express the Eope of e tab
] fishing the Lutheran caliphate Of cru
Salem. VIII am II. drea1 e1 of tn same
! idea, urged on by Won Bunsen's sci enc
to feCerate all of the HOheaZ llernS.
IntrigCes at Rome and London, sound
ing of various communities to this end,
! followed, with no result further tan
! the creation Of a Lutheran-Anglc8n
bishopric at Jerusalem in 1S40, destined
to last but & few years
! Freezer ok w Ill am eStab isEe1 a b an
denburg parish at Jerusalem in 1852,
surrounding it later by agcicultu. al col
onieS and charitable and religious in
! Stitutions. William l., in 1869, Wrested
from the sultan the gift of Mur.stsn. u
! quarter of Ch istian Jerusalem of which
! the crown prince, afterWard FredeI ick
time of the opening of the Suez canal.
i Here is located the Church Of the
! Saviour, row about to be corsecrated.
PrusE,ia's chief center of influence in
+ Jerusalem is the German hospital,
/ which cares for 500 persons annually,
Mussulmans, Jews, or Christians, irre-
spective of creed. The Girls Orphan
! asy ylum, erected in 1868, was followed
by the founding cf an enormous aims
house. An asylum for sick children
and refuge for lepers have also been
/ erected. In 1884 an attempt to drive
out the Catholics from Mount Carmel
was made, The Prussian Templars dr. v
ing cut the monks and sacking the
monastery. But the interveni n of the
/ French consul prevented their reten-
tion Of the sanctuary.
In the modern part of Jerusalem is
the Syrian Orphanage, founded by
Prussia. It's first pastor was Herr
Schneider, who took possession Of a
number OF the children bereft of their
parents by the bloody prosecutions OF
Mount lebanon Q860), making them It's
first pupils. It's 500 students now come
from all parts of Palestine, Samaria,
Galilee. Mount Lebanon and the Lake
Of Genesareth. The teaching beg MS
with Arabic and ends with GeImar. T e
children become blackSmiths, carpen-
ters, potters, tilemakers, shoemakers,
tailOrs, ca abinet makers and turner's
Of it's own, and publishes the Messenger
Of Zion.
DOES HE AIM AT THE PAPACY?
The statement of these facts is nee
essary to an understanding of the
kaser's project. No one can doubt
that he has been largely infu-
enced by this traditional bent toward
the Holy Land as the basis perhaps
Of rlNn NI.NN1, p
The invitation to Lutherans OF all sects
to take part in the pilgrimage is open
to no other construction; and when it
is fecOllected that William IL is firm
believer in the divinity of his appoint
ment as kaiser. is it not most natural
for him to pose as the pope of Luther !
anism, the real head Of the church.
with both temporal and spiritual
power?
It is conceivable that the kaiser, not
ing the loss of the popes temporal
power and the growth of Protestant
ism, has sweet dreams of becoming the
spiritual chief of Lutheranism, finding
the warrant for his selection in the
fact that Luther, the great reformer,
spread his doctrine in, Germany-nay,
was a German.
PROOF OF THE DREAM.
The kaiser, in fact, points to this his
upon which this great church in Jeru-
salem is to be consecrated, that day
celebrated as the birthday of Protest
antism. Oct. 81. It was on Oct. 81, 1917,
that Martin Luther, after laundering
against Tetzel and the sale of indul-
gences, wrote his ninety-five PROPOSE
tions, or theses, denouncing indulgen-
ces and nailed them to the door of the
Castle church. Here he announced the
basis Of Professionalism, God alone
can pardon through repentance and
contrition." What better day than this
could the future pope of Protestant
ism, Kaiser Wilhelm II. of Prussia (as |
he hopes to be called), choose for the
dedication Of the Church Of the Sa-
Viour in the city sanctified to Christen- |
dom by the life and death of Jesus of |
Nazareth?
JEALOUSY OF CZAR.
But there is still another purpose
which animateS the kaiser He looks /
over the European field and sees an |
other sovereign who is at one and the |
same time kaiser (czar) Of the realm |
and personal center Of the church. The |
car of Russia, like the Byzantine en- |
peror Of old, is head of the church in
his dominion. The Holy Oriental Or
thodOX Catholic Apostolic church, is
the official title of the Greek church,
called Greek because most of it's creeds.
Iiturgies, theological and aScetic lit
eratures are in that language and the
worship is mainly conducted in that
tongue.
The church in Russia is under the
permanent direction of the holy synod
of st. Petersburg, with the czar as it's
official head. In other words, Nicholas
is both emperor and pope of Russia
What more natural than for Kaiser
Wilhelm H. to be ambitious for a SINH
lar combination Of temporal and gpiri-
tual power. 1t is we'll known that the
car has an eye upon ConstantinopIe,
when Turkey is at last driven out or
Europe, that he may re-establish the
the dominion founded originally hy
Constantine.
CZAR'S EYE ON PALESTINE.
But the ear. has not been unmindful
Of Palestine, either. In a late article
Qn the Independently Prof. Samuel Ives
CUrtiss, D. D., shows that France and
Russia are dividing Palestine between
them The most commanding sites
in Lebanon and other parts of Syria
and Palestine he says, "are crowded
by MaTonite or French Catholic instt-
tuJonS. What means the Rus
sian occupation of the country. from
one end to the other, by ho5pices, open
to pilgrims and travellers during a brief
season of the year for a nominal sum?
What is the meaning of Greek Schools.
where instruction is given in Russian
and the subsidiZation of the Greek