Middletown transcript., 1914-10-10
aIDDLErowN, DEL, OCT. 10, 1914
A GODDESS MILITARISM

causes broader and deeper than the au-
tocratic dreams of the Kaiser to rule
Europe, aye, all the world.
Sad to say there has long been in
Germany not only widespread decay
of vital piety in the churches, but what
is worse, the growth of an infdelity of
the most blighting sort which has largely
sapped the national springs of con-
science and belief in God as the moral
ruler of the universe to whom all men
are accountable.
The one special curse that blasts the
liberties Of Russia, is the greater tyran-
ny of her ecclesiastical system. The
people humbly bow to their tyrannous
''White Gar" not so much. as divine
right Romanoff ruler, but as the head
of the church. So, in. Germany, the
church and the clergy are virtually the
creatures of, the Kaiser since both are
supported out of state funds 1t is
needless, then,. to- say that this militar-
list, madness. is blest by the bans of the
churchh
Germany, once the fountain head of
religious reform, has become the
equally fruitful source of that dry rot
of Christianity, rationalism, at once
the most insidious and deadly of all
forms of unbehef.
With the same presumption which
has bidden the autocratic regime of
German militarism threaten the whole
political and social order of Earope.
German scholars and theolo P,iaas have
for century or more been sludaciously
assailing, so to speak, the very ramparts
of Heaven, denying with suElfme impu-
dence Gods hand in creation, in reve-
lation, or in the affairs of men in the
past or present history of the race.
Their assaults upoA the Bible have
been bitter and persistent. The spade
of the archaologist no sooner knocks
out the early Tubingen school, than the
later Tubingen, equally destructive Of
diEinely revealed truth, takes its place
and others still arise upon the ruins Of
that
Thus decadent. Goddess theology
was preparing the way for = national
immortality that should deny the rights
Of nations and of Individuals, Ger
many's own people as we'll as others.
Read few selectionss from that gos-
pei Of the German nil1tarist system,
Won Bernhardi's wark:
War in itself iza,good thing-a biolo.
gical necessity E7the first Importance
i. e., as he elsewhere explains, because
it permits aee strong to wipe out the
weak weak nations have not the
same. night to live as powerful and Wig
oroGs nations
Efforts directed toward the aboli.
tion Of war are not only foolish but alb
solutely immoral, and must be stigma
tized as unworthy oE the human race. :
This brutal Bernhard
philosophy denies that the state owe:
any duties to humanity, or any regarc
to treaties, and declares also that the
great mass Of the common people have
no other function in life than to minis
ter to the pleasure and glory Of the
few "supermen" like the Kaiser anc
his merciless war captains!
Is it strange that the fruit of such I
heathenish philosophy should have beer
a trampled Belgium treaty and beau
tiful, peaceful, non-combatant countr!
turned into desert by this Kaiser ant
his soldiers?
A few years ago private citizen in
restaurant in Germany accidentally tro,
upon the toes of one of Williams sa
traps-a first or second lieutenant AM
though the civilian duly apologized TO
the mishap, the cowardly war minion
filled with the spirit Of his imperia
master, chased the unarmed man into
blind alley and there with his sword de
liberately skewered him alive agains
the wall!
Even the warrior-ridden Gerra
worm turned at this brutal deed, AM
the Kaiser, after a long refusal to d
anything, was forced to act. For thi
Dsaal murder he sent the assassin to jai
few months, and warned his sub
. ''that the military coat must b.
cted''! Thus proving that tn
ssary fruits of the militarism o
lany's Kaiser, was slaughter a
as well as abroad