Oxford eagle., 1918-04-25
CHANCELLOR POWERS QUOTES
FROM REV. n. ID. HILLS.

his mighty spirit lives in the soul of
the man who rs now in his famous old
pulpit at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
Millions have uuivered and tingled,
and responded TO the vivid eloquence
Of the Reverend Doctor Newell Dwight
Hills, one of Americas greatest of
living preachers"
The foregoing quotation is taken
from an article in Sundays issue OF
the Commercial Appeal. In my opin-
ion. DR.. Hills is really The greatest
preacher in America. Like many
others he did not credit the reports OF
German atrocities which came 10 this
country and to convince himself Of
their truth OF falsity he sailed fo-
France late in June of last year and
returned to this Country in Septem-
ber. / had the privilege and pleasure
Of bearing him in the city Of Chicago,
recjte the terrible scenes he had wit
messed and before him on the plat
form he had afidavits and photo
graphs to verify every statement he
set forth. | heard him speak of the
crucihed Mother Superior of a
Belgium Convent-ma-tyred because
she resisted the officer who was as
saulting one of the young nuns. he
spoke Of babies skered on bayonets
and young girls stripped and tied to
trees, that all of the Hunnish ho-ds
who wished might ravish them. He
said these incidents had the incontro-
vertible support Of ten thousand
proofs. hear him speak as follows:
Il have heard things In ravaged
France and ruined Belgium that have
1ckened me. have seen their truth
attested by scores of affidavits for
each incident. | went over there Won
de-ing II il were true that German
soldiers had ever cut the breast of a
Belgium woman know now that it
has been done, not once but scores OF
times. The scenes following the Ger
man occupation of Bailleul, for in
stance, have never been repeated IN
barbarity. THERE ARE Al LEAST
THIRTY AUTHENTICATED CASES
OF OUTRAGES ON WOMEN AND
GIRLS RECORDED FROM THIS
ONE LITTLE TOWN. THE DE-
TAILS ARE MADE THE MORE
HEINOUS BY THE FACT THAT
DAUGHTERS WERE OUTRAGED
IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR
MOTHERS, AND MOTHERS IN
THE SIGHT or THEIR CHILDREN.
On page of the Commercial APP
peal Of last Sundays issue appears
the following article-"Before an
audience exceeding 2000, at the 0deon,
in St Louis. DR.. Hills lectured on
German At-orities", and if any pro-
Germans heard it their very souls
must have burned with shame, for il
was the greatest indictment of Ger
man savagry ever heard from St.
Louis platform.
DR.. Hills showed Photographic
proofs of every assertion he made, e
marking as he did so, that photogra-
phs cannot lie. However, he showed
only such photographs as he could se-
fore q mixed audience of men and wo-
men There were some he showed
privately to ministers and others that
were too terrible even to be hinted at
here These showed beyond any
doubt that German soldiers under the
Kaiser in war-times live I'D TO the
reputation of their ancestors, the
Huns.
Among other atrocities which DR..
Hills said he witnessed while in
France was the sight of l20 women
and young girls lying dead IN an
orchard. after having been ravished
by German soldiers. The victims, he
said. had been strapped to the ground
with stakes and their outstretched
hands tied to saplings on either side,
leaving them helpless.
For three years German-Ameri-
cans have protested that stories of
German atrocities were to be disbe-
heved as English inventions, Belgium
lies and French hyprocities, but that
day has gone forever. When the C.
representatives. of the nations assemble
for the final settlement there will be
laid before the representatives of
Germany affidavits, photographs,
with other legal proofs, that make the
German atrocities to be far better
established than the scalping by
Sioux Indians on the Western From
tiers, the murdurs in the Black Hole
Of Calcutta, or the crimes of the
Spanish Inquisition.
For the first time in History the
Germany has reduced savagry to a
science. therefore, the great war for
peace must so on until the German
cansar is cut clean out of the body"
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