Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-08

German spirit, which. born of light Cost show us
the way To light, and establish in our midst at
once Weapon-Str0ng and piOus, in freedom DIS
cpne and morality, thy millennium
The German Lords Prayer.
The nPr German spirit has found of ITS
most classical expressions in Il collection of poems
published by a German pastor, Konsistorialrat
Dietrich Norwerk, under the significant title 'Hur-
rah andIiaeluiah. In the first edition of Pastor
Norwerks poems there occurred paraphrase Of
the Lords Prayer. of which l will cite the last
three petitions and the close:
Though the warriors bread be scanty do thou
work daily death and tenfold woes unto the
enemy. Forgive in mercful long suffering each
bullet and each blow which misses its mark
Lead US not into temptation of letting wrath
he too tame in carrying out thy divine judgment
Deliver us and our ally from the Internal enemy
and his servants earth. Thine is the king
dom, the German land; may we, by aid of thy
steel-clad hand achieve the power and the glory
He thus invokes God I'm battle prayer:
Thou who dwellest high above cherubim,
seraphm and Zeppelins in thy heaven; thou who
art enthroned God of thunder in the midst
of lightning from the Clouds and lightning from
sword and cannon. send thunder, lightning, hail
and tempest hurtng upon our enemy, bestow upon
us his banners, hur him down into the dark
burial pits"
Another poet, Fritz Philippi. has written the
following poem, entitled "World-Germany
In the midst of the world war Germany lies
like a peaceful garden of God behind the wall of
her armies. Then the poet hears the giant strides
of the new armor-clad Germany; thesearth trem-
hles. the nations Shrek the old era sinks into
ruin. Formerly German thought was shut up in
her corner. but now the world shall have its coat
cut according To German measure cJetzt wird der
Welt gemessen Der Rock mach deutschem Maass),
and far swords flash and German blood
flows. the circle of the earth shall come under
the tutelage of German activity
I'VE have become a nation of wrath; think
only of the war. We execute Gods almighty will
and the edicts of his justice we will fulfill, i'm
hued with holy rage"
Other German poets revel in radiant visions of
the blessings which victorious Germany is to show
er upon the poor, thirsty ailing world
German Virtue "Gushes"
One +. Lienhardt writes:
when these storms have done their work. Ger
manys purest mission begins: to become place
of refuge. holy grove for all the seekers of the
earth. central land land of WISDOM land
of morals. Then will it be the f1ower-wreathed
hospitable gateway. facing towards the glittering
East"
Another X. IIildehrand:
BLESSINGS stream and flow down upon those
who have given themselves up to thee; there Ger
man virtues guSh limpd forth there German
power wells mp. What draught from this spring.
Strong and deep and of high courage. the German
spirit flows along, the German nature (Wesen)
flows far the life of all nations"
Here is an extract from Il German theological
professor. the burden of whose thesis was that
room must be found in the world-history for that
great event. the healing of the sick world by Ger
manSm:
"There also signs that the German people
mAy he singled out by God to he the means of
'once again defeating the destructive anti-Chris-
tan tendencies of the age and in virtue of his
bo, mfr Stpd nh Wit &c
gospel. carrying the course of the mission to
its consummation. So much is certain, that God
is planning to do something With us. Our people
are inspired by the thought that they are called
upon 70 play special part in the decisive bat
tie between light and darkness and by the hope of
them standing the side of light"
In the report Of an address by another German
theological professor. in the Berliner Lokaan-