The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

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What is the real eim OF Emp ror VIII
liam in going to Palestine? No che
who has studied his character, po=eur
though he be, will say that it is done
merely for effect. Call the ka ser what
you WILL he is not a fool. What, ten,
IS the inner purpose of this pilgrimage?
Perhaps there is a double purpose in
the fertile brain OF the young emperor.
In the first place, the kaiser UNI
doubtedly hopes to realize a German
dream, which has lasted for aim st
century. Frederick William III. was
the first to express the hope of tIb-
fishing the Lutheran caliphate Of cru
salem VIII am II. dream Ell of tn same
Idea, urged on by Won Bunsen's sci ene
to feCerate all OF the Hohe1Z liernS.
lntrigres at Rome and London, sound
ing OF various communities TO this end,
followed, with no result further I all
the creation of a Lutheran-Auglic8n
biShOpric at Jerusalem in 1919, destined
to last but a few years.
FREEZER. ok Viii am estab ishe1 a B an
denburg parish at Jerusalem in 1882,
surrounding it later by agcicultu. al col
OnieS and charitable and religious In
stltUtiOns. William l.. in 1869. wrested
from the sultan the gift of Muir stan. u
Quai ttr Of Oh, istian Jerusalem of which
the crown prince, afterWard Fredeli lex
Ill, took official possession at tie
time of the opening of the SueZ canal.
Here is located the Church Of the
Saviour. Tow about to be consecrated.
PrusSiaS chief center Of influence in
Jerusalem is the German hospital,
which cares for 500 persons annually,
MUssulmans, Jews, or Christians, ire
spectiVe of creed. The Girls Orphan
sylUm, erected in 1868, was followed
by the founding CT AN enormous aims
house An asylum for sick children
and refuge fer lepers have also been
erected. In 1884 an attempt to drive
out the Catholics from Mount Garner
was made, the Prussian Templars DIR v
ing cut the monks and sacking the
monastery. But the interventi of the
French consul prevented their reten-
ton 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 CT a
number of the children bereft of their
parents by the bloody prosecutions or
Mount Lebanon $500, making them lis
first pupils. It's 800 students now come
from all parts of Palestine, Samaria,
Galiiee, Mount Lebanon and the Lake
OF GeneSareth. The teaching beg rs
with Arabic and ends with GeImar. T e
children become blacksmiths, carpen-
ters, potters, tilemakers, shOemakers,
tailOrs, cabinet makers and turner's.
he SSIdDlISIltlI6Ill Has d pllHlli press
Of its 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
kaisers project. No one can doubt |
that he has been largely in1u-
enced by this traditional bent toward
the Holy Land as the basis perhaps
Of the "POpedOm of Professionalism"
The invitation to Lutherans of all sects
to take part in the pilgrimage is open |
to no other construction; and when it
is recOllected that William II. is a 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 pope's 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
act 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
toric event by selecting as the day
upon which this great church in Jeru-
salem is to be consecrated, that day
celebrated as the birthday of Protest
antism, Oct. 81. 1t was on Oct. 81, 1917,
that Martin Luther, after laundering
against TetZel and the sale of indul-
gences, wrote his ninety-five PROPOSE
ticns, 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
ccntrition." 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-
dem by the life and death Of Jesus Of
Nazareth?
JEALOUSY OF GAR.
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 |
bis 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, |
liturgies, 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 car as It's !
official head. In other words, Nicholas |
is both emperor and pope of Russia. |
What more natural than for Kaiser |
Wilhelm Ii. to be ambitious for a SINH |
lar combination of temporal and spiri- |
tual power. 1t is we'll known that the |
car has an eye upon ConstantinOple, |
when Turkey is at last driven out OF !
Europe, that he may re-establish the g !
the dominion founded originally by |
Constantine.
CARS EYE ON PALESTINE.
But the car has not been unmindful\I
Of Palestine, either. In a late article |
Gin 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 insti- /
tutjons. What means the Rus |
sian occupation of the country, from !
one end to the other, by hospices, open
to pilgrims and travellers during a brief !
season of the year for nominal sum?
What is the meaning of Greek sch0o,s !
and the subsidization Of the Greek |
nh1ITnh in limo Of