New-York tribune., 1918-12-23
Germans Place i'm
Bread Line Is Last,
Says DIR. van Dyke
Former Minister to Holland
Believes All Allied Sol
dicrs Slain i'm War SSEn-
tered Into Eternal Peace"

"If Germany makes full restitution
for her crimes, if she gives back every
thing she has taken. if she restores
everything that she has destroyed anc
pays for all the damage she has done
then as Christian nations we must for
give her But what sho has done will
not be forgotten. There is not one
word in tho Holy Book which admon-
ishcs us to forget"
Thus Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former
Minister to Holland and chsplain- at
large in the United States navy, in a
sermon to men in uniform last night
at the Brick Presbyterian Church, de-
cared that as Christians we must also
feed our enemies, but as a righteous
nation we must insist that Germany
shall take the last place in The bread
line Cf tho world.
Lauds Presidents Skill
LET us thank God" he said that
the wisdom and skill of President Will
son have made IT possible for US to
realize the fruits Of victory in so short
a time and without the loss of one un-
necessary life or the prolongaton of
the agony one unneedful hour. l have
met some boodthirsty civilians who
regret that the war is ended. Let them
rave. Their answer should come from
the men in Uniform who did their part
toward bringing the conflict to sue
cessful end. No white blooded, cold
footed pacifist did a thing 10 bring
about this victory.
During my work in Holland l saw
the horrors of war as practised by Ger
many in Belgium and in Northern
France. And I say that the nations and
the men who took up arms against
those deviltries were the instruments
of a righteous God. And believe the
men who gave their lives in this cause
have entered into eternal peace.
don't know whether that is orthodox or
not and l don't care. | believe it.
Soldiers Not Bloodthirsty
II thank God that military men are
to frame the phrases Of peace instead
of the 'bloodthirsty civilians.' I have
found military men much less inflam-
matory. The bloodthirsty civilian is
yelling for the destruction of German
towns as reparaton for German atroc-
titles, but no officer of the United States
would be found to give such an order
and no men in United States uniform
would execute it If it were given.
"The destruction of the Cathedral at
Cologne could never compensate for
the loss Of that great church at Rheims
Neither could the murder of thousands
of German women and children bring
back French wives and children sacr-
feed to the German war god"
eve do not thirst for blood. We
wanted victory and we have it,
~ believe the brigands of the Hohen-
zollern family should be tried by a
court of nations and, if found guilty,
punished-but not by mob law or vio-
lence. 1t would be absurd and crimi-
nal to give a martyrs crown to a muir
derer."
<1lCcI ClldIdCltIlElHS JHG pIOpOSeu
league of nations as simply world
wide extension of the Monroe Doctrine,
Dr.. van Dyke said:
Some combination of nations must
be devised to safeguard civilization.
War cannot be absolutely abolished un.,
til human nature has been made per-
feet, but war can be made much more
difficult and wars of conquest such as
the German crime of 1914 can be made
impossible"