The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-09
ENGLAND REFUSES
 T0L0VE HER ENEMY
Criticize Preachers Who Advocate It in Sermons
TWO ARE CATCHING IT
'Dr. Lyttleton. Headmaster of Eton, and Canon Simpson of St. Paul's Cathedral Arouse Ire of Brit
 ish Public and Press

London. April 15.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press)-Dr. Lyttleton headmaster of Eton, in an address in St Margaret's church on the grounds of Westminster abbey. has declared it to be England's duty to extend the principles of Christian charity to Germany. and as the result he is being assailed on all sides S an unpatriotic and a foolish visionary
 Such dangerous and pernicious stuf: as was put forward by the headmaster of Eton," comments the Globe almost induces desire for muzzling order. While the newspapers are bidden by Ire censor to walk with the utmost oiroum- spection, we have pr. Lytteton airing his views unchecked both In articles and speeches
 The parts of the doctors address tha. in particular offended the press were these:
 "If we are going to act as a Christian nation we are bound to apply to Ger many the principle of Christian charity on a scale to which we have never risen before. Our obligation is so to act that the German hatred of us shall be re- moved; that 60000,00o fellow creatures should be saved from the ruin of a pois- oned mind If. at the end of the war, we say we are not going to part with a sim gle inch of territory or a single privilege. all l can say Is we are abandoning the principle of Christianity
 At the end of the war Dr. Lyttleton explained Germany will be filled with vindcative wrath against England. To avert this England must prove kind and generous Germans believe that the Eng fish preach morals and never act on them, so England must prove her loftiness of view to the Germans.
 1,.. 4.. fighting for our existence as an empire, but from whatever point you may view the objective of the war. surely we must as Christian people, acknowledge that if the effect of it is to make 60O00, coo people hate us, the war will have been an entire failure
 Must Relinquish Something
 He then said that unless England offers to give up some possession for a reason that she Is trying to enforce on others, she would be charged with 'consummate hyprocrisy.' He believes that the Kiel canal should be internatonalized, but in making that proposal England should couple it with promise to international ize Gibraltar Expanding this thought, he added:
 'If we intend to hold fast to every thing we have gained in the past--and some of them possessions gained by very questionable means-and we say we are not going to part with single inch of territory or a single privilege, all l can say is we are abandoning the principle Of competition.
 The Evening Standard comments on .,e address:
 Tt is an idyllic. Arcadian picture sug- gestiVe Of little Mary and her lamb and piping shepherds, and suggestive, per faps also of the old fable of the wolf and the lamb that refused to trust it..
 The paper then recounts the times at various crises Great Britain has inter- Nened in the interests of peace, and praises the benefits her rule has brought to the people of India and other colonies.
 Simpson in Bad Also
 Canon Simpson of St. Paul's cathedral has aroused the ire of the press by de- liveling what one of the papers calls a ''jellyfish sermon" the text, Love Your Enemies along the same lines as one recently preached by Dr. I-vttlet 1n, headmaster of Eton.
 ''lt is not enough to defend our shores said the canon. Ito liberate Belgium to succor France and to give peace to Flu rope We must make an effort to love Germany God loves us. Rarely in ttis imperfect world does punishment stop short of the pound of flesh nor can ons country crush another however righteou. its cause, without nficting what it is Cifficut to describe otherwise than as horrible wrongs"
 The canon granted that Christian men in Great Britain might pray for victory, but they must pray for their enemies also
 In commenting on the sermon, the Daily Express speaks of the canon one of the misguided but doubtless well-mesn ing people, who are trying to start q don t-hurt- Germany campaign.
 There is a movement In England, how ever. to hold the diplomatists accountable tp the people in making the peace terms This view is set forth by S. Roden Bux- ton as follows:
 ''I do not think honestly that we can trust those in authority in Europe. in our own country or any other. to mako a settlement. lido not believe that small section Of men, however good their nten- tions-and many of their intentions are Eood-can he trusted to make a settle ment which will he just. fair and perms- rent. We might have a settlement which would impose terms bound to lead 10 another war. Ii is futile to have fought this war if at the end so humiliste and crush any nation that it resolves from that day forward to build up for a second war"