The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-09
"The Mind of Germany"
Extracts of Lecture Delivered Chautauqua Last Week
by DR.. Frank Bohn

technical High School. They both
graduated and were doing well. They
were helping me. and l was about to
have them both happily married
when the war started, but l was very
glad to give up the boys. The Kaiser
needed them. The country must be
protected from our enemies. We must
| be brave during the war. When l Wis
lifted Fritz, my favorite. at his Camp
in Ruh1aben, and said goodbye for
| the last time, told him that wanted
to hear that he had fought hard, and
| that | would rather not have him come
back to me at all, than return with a
defeated army. But, of course, | spend
many sleepless nights thinking about
the boys
did they ask you about the war,
when they began t?" l inquired. "Oh,
no." she replied, nobody cared what
| thought"
WELL said l, "the time is going
to come when you and the Mrs.
Schmidts of all lands look
straight into the faces of the Kaisers
and kings, and demand that they first
get your consent before they go to
war Did you ever wish to send the
Kaiser's sons to war without his con-
sent?"
Mrs Schmidts eyes opened wide
and her color came and went. You
must not let anybody hear you talk
that way" she said. 81 would not
dare think thus, much less speak
thus
How the Kaiser Rules
The mind of Mrs. Schmidt was
mind formed for the will of her rulers.
She believed implicitly what she read
in the newspapers. To her mind the
kaiser was the vicegerent of God on
earth. His motives must not be ques-
toned. nor his will opposed in the
slightest detail. The one thing need
full which Germany utterly lacks is
individual opinion. individual res
and individual conscience.
In the hill country of the Thudingia
had the pleasure of living with coun-
-ry people, relatives of mine. While |
with them | perhaps came little
loser to the German mind and the +
German heart in time of war than any
,ther American. AS is the custom in
Germany, even most distant relatives
lid me the honor of calling on me in
he evening of the day | arrived.
There also came one. who, while he
,laimed no relationship. said that he
lad known me long ago in Ohio, be-
ore | was old enough to know him.
While in Ohio he had joined the
Methodist church.
What's Wrong with England!
"Of course" said I, "as you are
Iethodist, you love England, the r
of John Wesley; so you, can
lot say as all Germany is saying,
God punish England"
you are mistaken said he, God
5 indeed furnishing England, and l.
loyal Methodist and follower of John
Wesley, am permitted to know why
he punishment is being melted out.
Ingland had the glorious opportunity
f converting the world to the right
nd true religion, Methodism, but Eng
and proved unfit for the task of the
,ord's evangel England is far too i
reedy, too jealous, too altogether
licked. / know what God is doing. II
lie is using Germany as an instrument Z
18th which to punish England for
err unworthiness. After God has
sed Germany as means to beat
ngland into the dust he will make
IL Germany Methodist, and Germany {
ill teach Methodism to the world" y
Religion and Patriotism
You can understand the mind of 9
ermany only If you can conceive OF II
atriotism having developed into 6
eligion. German patriotism is nit '
different from American /
atriotism, there is only more Of it; i
Germany it has become religion, I