Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-09
OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

UUlolDE fOlNl VI VIEW.
Written for tho Times Republican.
There's something about the German
|emperors utterances that smacks of
lold testament times.
The papers print a sermon preached
by Emperor William last Sunday on
board the imperial yacht Hohenzollern,
4 from Exodus xviii, IL:
Ard it came to Iass when Moses
held uphis hand, that Ell preva'!ed
4 land when he let down his hand,
\ sAmalek Deryaiied.
4 The subject was THE Holy Duty and
Holy Power of Intercession. 2 The re-
sI3ports show that the discourse was quite
4 ioellicose toward China. OF the SOL
Iaters going tlither tho imperial preach
|sers said:
1 They shan be the strong arm which
Furnishes assassins They shall be the
i mailed fist which smites that chaotic
! mass. They shall defend, sword in hand,
I'our hottest POSSESSIONS. - True
1 prayers can Still, cas-; the banner of the
dragon into the dust and plant the ban
Il sner of the cross upon the walls.
A Ard then his talk TO the German
tlts,'l
i Not to tai Ike any prisoners and by their
q acts in battle make the Chinese re-
a lnember them thousand years, etc
And at least four times in his address
4 did he use the word Christianity We,
4 the Christian world. was the idea. All
4 this agrees so We'll with the old doc
Urine of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a
81 tooth. Ard it is so thoroughly in line
s. with the accounts of the wars of the
q lsraelites. And he evidently believes
II the Lord of Hosts is on his side and
commsns.s this kind of stalwart Chris
& tianity
& But there is another state of affairs
4 that must puzzle even the Chinese
ii themselves. We have been sending
snlissionaries over there for many years.
d There are some German missionaries.
s. They all preach the doctrine OF love.
They offer the hea.hen Chinese the
( new testament in which they are told
\ tpslose theirenemies. to bless them thar
curse you, and 10 turn the other cheek,
when one is 8struei,. y writer in the
= fimss-H Herald evidently has been read
II ing SONG eastern senfimentalists words
y in reference TO Germans proposed flu
'Etlire action. He says: But Il all this
sitright over the proposal To hold China
4 aecauntable for her nlisdeeds justified.
8 Would the people who are SO terribly
Il worried lest the Chinese may be too
tiss-yerely punished have the powers say,
Ito the8old Empress DoWager:
Please, don't Kill any more of our
'5Epeeple. You did Wrong 10 have any of
lfthem murdered, but Ne ere Christians.
! slss are the essence Of civilization, there
I fore n.e Will, forgive you for the killing
+ you have dpne ii you VIII not kill ny
-sElnale 8Orlif yoG insist on killing all the
n white pee PIE r20w III China please, Mrs.
"a i0oNga ger. Won You promise not y XII!
) Others who MAJ. get out Of their course
5 and land on your shores in the future"
Now the German emperor is COM
5 monty supposed to be "a little off Z
!. Many explain aud apologize for these
i E5usteranpes on the ground he is not ful-
s. sls res ponsible for what he says. Rui II
AsFis Very much Of a question ii thesa sane
I civii.zed Christian world is not in sy1,s-
5 pathy with the sentiment Of his words
!. Hi says it openly. lie world thinks il
/ and inwardiy applauds. Theoretically
Z the same world abhors and condemn.
+ the southern negro-itiIling nloh bu
SStaStl ~.
: This Chinese war gets close to us this
time. Let us suppose that as q sresul;
of oul. march 10 Pekin, cur fellow citi-
Zen Mr., Cnnger is tortured and mlr-
e.sied that Mrs. G'ongsr and daughte,
$ before they airs Killed, are turned oyst
: .aths Chinese soldiers To be treated as
some Women have already beea, out
$ ragged. Their, heads then cut of, and car
Z ried around on shari cred sticks. HON.
-tt5dp the crazy entteros's words sound
: ilpm Christian ettlics are one thing
i and Christian sentinentality goes WITH
i j L. but unGAr tls circumstances not by
Y any means inlfrn ba olss to suppose Mil
$ ros such action as .lle German, en-
t 4 peror proposes be The greatest good Il
i tie ga t<sss number VIII not siiah &C
zion sav3a mary likes In the tGtuIs
: making such Inassaeres in the futrrs
~ Atrenlsls S uys likely. Or shstli We adopt
/ the plan l3.assessor Heron seriously
i talked n rs time Of the Spanisa y al:
/ III case "a SPANISH war ship Ir9posea ii
{. He'll Mem York Ctta aInVite them
: ashnra. banquet them. make llsil1S pres,
{ ei4ts 1trinS; say ii, ti,: lave them
5 bless tA9in say please don't destroy
81 New York.
No writer shouid write much less
E should any newspaper print, such
: .leatileAish sentiments; says some
: rsaGef Tho teiea Of comm, aaing such
Eterribie iisteraGees ii an sftsans Ger
man. \ spapersss province Is 10 q d
I vanca modern IDEAS of CIVILIZATION AND
:. chris tiaatty Carrying cut such ideas
destroys the ethics OF modern Warfare
AXE NJ prisoners why that's wfal