The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-19

German spirit, which, born of light, dost show us
the way to light, and establish in our midst, at
once weapon-strong and pious, in freedom, dis
cipline and morality, thy millennium
The German Lords Prayer.
The new German spirit has found one of its
most classical expressions in d collection of poems
published by a German pastor, Konsistorialrat
Dietrich Vorwerk, under the significant title, Hur-
rah and Hallelujah.' In the first edition of Pastor
Vorwerk's poems there occurred a paraphrase of
the Lords Prayer, of which 1 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 merciful long suffering each
bullet and each blow which misses its mark
Lead us not into temptation of letting our wrath
be too tame in carrying out thy divine judgment!
Deliver us and our ally from the Internal enemy
and his servants on 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 In a battle prayer:
'Thou who dwellest high above cherubim,
seraphim and Zeppelins in thy heaven; thou who
art enthroned as a God of thunder in the midst
Of lightning from the clouds, and lightning from
sword and cannon, send thunder, lightning, hail
and tempest hurtling upon our enemy, bestow upon
us his banners, hurl him down into the dark
burial pits"
Another poet, Fritz Phfippi, has written the
following poem, entitled World Germany:
"In the midst Of the world war Germany lies
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her armies. Then the poet hears the giant strides
of the new armor-clad Germany; the earth trem-
bles, 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 (Jetzt wird der
Welt gemessen Der Rock mach deutschem Maass),
and as far as our swords flash and German blood
flows, the circle of the earth shall come under
the tuteage of German activity.
1--WE have become a nation of wrath we think
only of the war. We execute Gods almighty will
and the edicts of his justice we will fulfill, i'm
bued 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 F. Lienhardt writes:
when these storms have done their work, Ger
many's purest mission begins: to become a place
of refuge, a holy grove for all the seekers of the
earth, a central land, a land of wisdom, a land
of morals. Then will it be the fower-wreathed
hOspitable gateway, facing towards the glittering
East"
Another, X. Hildebrand:
Blessings stream and flow down upon those
who have given themselves up to thee there Ger
man virtues gush limpid forth, there German
power wells up. What a draught from this spring
Strong and deep and of high courage, the German
spirit flows along, the German nature (Wesen)
flows far over the life of all nations"
Here is an extract from a 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
manism:
"There are also signs that the German people
may be singled out by God to be the means Of
once again defeating the destructive anti Chris
tan tendencies of the age, and, in virtue of his
having intrusted them above others with his pure
gospel, carrying on the course Of the mission to
it's ~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 to play a special part in the decisive bat
tie between light and darkness, and by the hope of
them standing on the side of light"
In the report of an address by another German
theological professor. in the Berliner Lokalan-