The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-15
GERMAN FAILURE
Success of TeutOn Can Be Only
Temporary.
No Matter What Gains May Be
Made on Western Front.
CREED OF KAISER ABHORRENT
Ultimate Triumph of Allies and
Their Principles Inevitable.
Powerful Discourse by Rev. Il.
J. Kulp of Topeka.
CREED OF KAISER ABHORRENT

The Rev DR.. E. ]. Kulp, pastor of
the First NJ. f. church of Topeka.
Sunday evening delivered the first of
a series of addresses, his subject be-
ing "Germany's Success a Failure
He took his text from Proverbs, IA
chapter "a verse: righteousness
exalteth a nation: but sin is a re-
proach t. any people
There was a large congregation
evidently intensely interested to hear
the preachers views as they were TO
be expressed in the first of the SIX
dis curses which he has planned to
make for six Sunday evenings.
The usual large chorus provided the
musical numbers. the audience join
ing in. both being led by DIR. L. v
Sans, acting as musical director.
AS Doctor Kulp proceeded. it was
evident that he was sincere in what
he was saying. He used plain Ian
guage that could not pc 1nlsuhdeI-
stood.
The particular point he made clear
as he went along was that no matter
no wgreat the VICTORIES for the time
being the German divisions won IN
their great drive against the British,
the French and the Americans. any
seening success could be only tenn
porary: that the greatest material
triumph Germany may apparently
win now any day, or week or month,
before the war ends Germany's fail
ure must be intensified and known
to the world.
He took the position that Ger
manys principles were inherently
wrong. and being so any seeming sue
cess of those principles must inevita-
bly, in the end prove a miserable
failure.
He pointed out that at the close of
the Franco-German war in the early
7O's, an important event took place at
the French Partisan suburb of Yer
sailles, the famous headquarters of
Louis XIV, Louis XIV and Louis XVI,
the playground of Marie Antoinette.
who was executed after the outbreak
! of the French revolution in the latter
part of the eighteenth century and
whose execution followed the decapi-
tation of her husband-m onarch, Louis
XVI. Versailles is eleven miles south
west of Paris, and as the reader will
remember. was the German head
quarters following the Franco-German
war in 1870 and 1871.
This important event was the proc
lamation, said Doctor Kulp, of the
PruSsian, William 1, as emperor of
Germany at the palace of the French
kings at Versailles.
Doctor Kulp set forth in eloquent
words the fact that Germanys basic
principles were wrong and must in
evitab bly, be discredited with the Ger
tain triumph in the end of the allies,
whose principles are founded on the
Gibraltar rock of morals, character
and determination that these latter
shall prevail, despite any temporary
victories following the ruthlessness
and human slaughter of the kaiserS
minionS.
He pointed out that in the begin
ming the German home was founded
on principles no longer recognized by
modern civilization, with the excep-
ton of such civilization and kultur
dominant in Germany and some few
other great nations that have not yet
seen the light; he said that in the Ger
man home in Germany, the mother
did not take her place in the family
as the mother does in Great Britain
| or the United States or in France:
| that in these allied countries, to a
| large extent, the woman is a co-part-
ner with the man; that the husband
| and wife are recognized as heads of
| the family and that each child is
| trained to respect both parents and if
there be any difference in the atti-
| tude of the child toward either par
ent, that the mother is entitled to
more respect and consideration.
In the German home the children
are trained to respect the father; they
are not even expected to defer to the
| mother if the mothers wishes elias
with those of the father. In fact the
whole German training and govern
ment instillc into the minds of the
masses of the people, continued Doctor
Kulp, that they must obey their men
superiors and in the end must obey
| the kaiser, regardless
| He pointed out that in the Germa n
schools and their institutions of learn
| ing the pupils and students have been
| trained to obey some man. superior. in
| authority; that at these COLLEGES there
was nothing that took the place that
| athletics fill in the American colleges
that athletics in our universities and