El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-10-06
KAISER
AND THE CHRIST
The German Military Sys-
ten Is a Glorification
of War.
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u 4ulreQ TO do.
But" you protest, i must do them.
I am compelled to do them L must
Z either do them or die in disgrace"
III you viii keep your face 10 the
TRUTH, replies the minister, event
ualIy You will not do them YOu
would rather die dozen deaths, than
20 on doing them The secret Is in
the loyalty OF your mind TO God
seeing from the viewpoint OF Christ,
and then doing as you feel like do
ing- No man can save himself Only
God can save him. Gods means is
the mind that was in Christ, the
mind of Christ is q thing that ought
10 DE in the sO-called Apostles Greed.
IN me gap between, born Of the
Virgin Mary and suffered under
I Poutius Plate II is that without
I which the world must perish"
"1 cS,' you reply, but that IS not
I practical / am not equal to doing as
I Jesus did"
True enough. but If in your mind
I YOU VIII think the thoughts Of Christ.
I more and more you viii be equal to
J walking His steps, and what is more,
2 you viii feel like doing it,
"But must go back TO the
{ trenchest7
Must Go Back TO Trenches.
Yes, You must 80 back 10 she
] trenches, because for the present YOU
/ are not strong enough 10 do anything
4 better. Go back But understand
/ what YOU are doing; cease trying to
justify your self; and think the
thoughts OF Christ As man think
[ eth in his heart, so is he and by ana
nE you viii have the desire and the
l courage 10 confess that your al
leglauce is to Him"
And then-and then, what? What
VIII be the OutcOmeg'
If the war lasts. it may be yours
Z 70 conquer as your Master conquered.
Young man, remember that there is
q difference between the Christian
Christ and the pagan Christ. The
CHRISTIAN Christ was crucified as q
traitor. Remember, that under the
Roman law treason and rebellion
molestas,' they called il, were the
only crimes for which a man could
be crucl1ied- CrucifiNiOn was the
punishment for traitors who were not
Roman CITIZENS II q traitor was q
Roman citizen like Paul, ne was be-
headed II he was not a citizen he
was crucified- Jesus and Peter Were
not Roman citizens
But you demonstrate in aston
iShment, 1T says that two thIeV4
were crucitied with Jesus"
Yes, so II does in the translation.
But in the original II says two rebel
bandits Go back 10 your business
Of disobeying God. and Strengthening
y our neighbOrs, men as good and
. better than yourself, but go back with
} our mind committed to understand
the love Of Christ and the iniQuity
you too, viii have the strength to
deny yourself, and take up your
cross and follow him. He that saveth
his life shall lose ii, but he that
loseth his life for His sake, and for
I the sake Of the good news, the same
shall find it"
Are Many Such.
3 Vow, my friends, perhaps you doubt
I as TO whether there are in Germany
/ today any such Christians as the sort
" M sui aHnM
I 10 you II you doubt that there are
/ any who resemble him, you are under
f a very wrong impression. There have
E been many such, and there are ouch
T TO-DAY nave spoken in a previous
E lecture OF the transcendent herOism
! OF LieDknecht, Haase, Lebedour, and
( others OF the socialists Their cOur-
. age and sacrifice are not one whit
I greater than that of some Of the
Z Christian preachers and COLLEGE pro-
I greater. But let rs thank God for
] the essential grandeur Of q nature
7 that can for the sake Of q principle
I array itself against the whole Ger
such a man IS Prof. F. ". Forster.
I the famous scholar Of Munich. Some
I months ago he wrote book on The
Youth OF Germany and The War" He
b didn't receive an imperial Iron Cross
r Tor IT, He came very near, however.
E 10 getting the modern equivalent OF
the one his master hung on. In this
book hs-says.
we Germans also bear our part
OF the responsibility for the present
tragedy Of mankind..-..- We have
sadly failed TO take the lead in high
+ m1ndedness and in ever-present
consciousness Of sacred things, and
opr reward is the world conflagra-
Has Vision OF Future.
Dr. FORSTER foresees that after vic
tory, classes Of people viii arise in
Germany who have themselves s11f-
fered nothing, sacrificed nothing, nor
witnessed the nobility and suffering
OF the enemy, but who viii then ex-
plot Germany's victory. men with
out restraint and without Kultur:
been nightly swollen by new can
mons, so that they viii think that
they too, are now bound to open their I
mouths to the width Of - Cenumeters, Z
and he who fails 10 do so is no pa
triot."
IN regard to hatred Of other people, /
he says:
Try on some sleepless night to
light the light Of Christ in your soul, /
and for once to love your enemy. I
Think Of glorious VIM. Booth and I
Of all the English greatness and
goodness embodied in him. Think of 3
Florence Nightingale, the holy
heroine whose example as a pioneer
Of mercy TO this day binds countless
wounds Think Of Carlyle, Ruskin,
Toynbee, and OF the mighty powers
Of conscience which spoke through
them, and gave, and viii continus to
give, great gifts to US Germans.
Do not let us be Pharisees"
On @Estimnte of the War"
In chapter headed Estimates OF
The War" ne goes on to say:
Insofar as 1 have been able 10 dis
cover, all criticisms Of German mil
itarism coming from without have
led the leaders OF German national
ism, even socialists. to take I'D the
cudgel in its defense and to maintain
that IL is the cornerstone of the ma
lions inner and outer grea tness. This
IS doubtless true Of the natiOn-butI
il isn't true OF the human values Of
German people.
German nationalists alIege that
the military system has the power OIL
creating Law and Order and Of de-
veloping disposition to discipline
through which the individual learns
to feel himself a part Of the nation
and TO subordinate himself TO its in
terests. But 10 the discerning its
effect does not by any means stop
there. It goes on to make the in
divtdual feel that he is not an in
tegral part Of all mankind. that on (
the contrary he is a part OF a thing
that is arrayed against the other part
OF the human race, and 1t makes him
feel that his highest obligation in
life Is TO the machine to which he be-