The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1917-09-28
KAIsER's RECKONING COMING,
SAYS HILLS

New York, Sept 16.-The Rev.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, tonight preached
the first of six sermons on the lob
servations in France, Belgium and
England During July and August,
1917" Using Rev. xviii, Babylon
the great is fallen,0 Doctor Hills
said, in part:
Every American who has passed
through France and the edge of Bel
gium this year has returned home a
permanently saddened man. German
cruelty and French agony have cut
bloody cash in the heart, and there
is no Dakin solution that can heal the
wound. Here upon this pulpit rests
a reproduction of an iron coin given
as a token to each German soldier.
At the top is German portrait of
Deity, and underneath are these
words, 1.-THE good old German God"
To encourage the German soldier to
cruelty and atrocity against Belgians
and French, the Deity holds weapon
in his right hand, and to dull his con-
science and steel his heart to muir
der the token holds these words:
"Smote your enemy dead. The day
of judgment will not ask you for rea-
sons"
For three years German-American
have protested that the stories of
German atrocities were to be dis
believed as English inventions, Bel
gian lies and French hypocrisies; but
that day has gone by forever. When
the representatives of the nations as
semhle for the final settlement there
will be laid before the representa-
tives of Germany affidavits and pho
tographs, with other legal proofs
that make the German atrocities to be
far better established than the scalp
ings of the Sioux Indians on the
western frontiers, the murders in the
Black Hole of Calcutta or the crimes
of the Spanish Inquisition
Kaiser Calls His Troops "Huns."
No one understands the German
people as we'll as the Kaiser Our
President, in a spirit of magnani-
nifty, patience and good WILL distin-
guished between the Kaiser and the
Prussian Government, and over
against them put the German peo-
pie. But Germany's Chambers of
Commerce, Hamburg's Board of
Trade and certain popular assemblies
would have none of this, and in the
fury of their anger passed resolu-
tons, saying: what our Government
is we are. Their acts are our acts.
Their deeds and military plans are
our plans" Knowing his people
through and through, the Kaiser call
ed his soldiers before him and gave
them this charge: make yourselves
more frightful than the Huns under
Attila. See that for thousand years
no enemy mentions the very name
of Germany without shuddering."
Why do the German people say
they feel so terribly because the au-
thors of the world call them "Huns"
and "barbarians?" Who named
them "Huns?" Their Kaiser Who
christened them barbarians? Their
Kaiser
This war began in conference in
the Potsdam palace in 1892. The
phamplet distributed by the Kaiser
begins with these words: 'The Pan
German Empire: From Hamburg on
the North Sea to the Persian Gulf
Our immediate goal: 250,000,000 of |
people. Our ultimate goal: the |
Germanization of all the world" The
explanation of the Kaiser contains
these words: From CHILDHOOD |
have been under the influence Of 5 |
men, Alexander, julius Caesar,
Theodore II, Frederick the Great
Napoleon. Each of these men dream
ed dream of world empire they
failed. | am dreaming a dream of
the German world empire-and my
mailed fist shall succeed" He print
ed one map headed ''The Roman En-
pre-" with all the great States cap
tured and their capitals
Ephesus, Jerusalem, Alexandria,
Carthage -reduced to county-seat
towns, paying tribute to Rome
But the Kaiser prints side by side
with that map another world map,
with Berlin the capital; and by 1915