The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-22
'AS A MINISTER
| SEES HUN CASE
Rev. Or. Ezra Butler Newcomb
breaches on What is Due Fall
len Foe When He Looks
Like the Kaiser.
OBADIAH AND HABAKKUK
These Two Old Prophets Had About
Right Idea Of Such People as
the Germans Of Recent
Times.

''The pride of thy heart hath de-
ceived thee, o, thou that dwellest in
the clefts of the rocks, whose habi-
tation is high; that saith in his heart,
Who shall bring me down to the
ground? Though thou mount on high
as the eagle. and though thy nest be
set among the stars will bring thee
down from thence. saith Jehovah"
"Woe to him that getteth an evil
gain for his house, that he may set
his nest on high. Thou hast devised
shame to thy house by cutting of
many peoples. and hast sinned
against thy SOUL"
/! The first from Obadiah and the
second from Habakkuk were COM
/ bined into the text of a sermon by
Rev. DR.. Ezra Butler Newcomb, last
Sunday in the Westminster Presby-
terrain church that immensely pleased
his congregation, many of whom
agree that it should be known to all
/ Keokuk what their pastor thinks OF
lGermany and the proper attitude OF
Americans toward the Hun OF the
twentieth century. Among other
| things, the Rev. DR.. Newcomb said:
Greatest Crimes In History.
| In the prosecution of this plan by
the present war, Germany's crimes
equal her ambitions and go beyond
what history has ever seen before,
Her doctrine Of the right of might
Justified her to her own thought, in
any crime which would assist to &C
Icomplish her desire. Her initial crime
was the destruction of the spirit Of
the old Germany, to which the world
has gladly acknowledged its indebted
mess for music, poetry, literature and
art.
| But Prussia and Prus sianism gave
the world none of these gifts, and by
two generations of false teaching
drove them out of the heart and spirit
of the nation, which learned to de-
vote itself simply to the accumula-
ton of power through the practice OF
Ifrightfulness.
The catalogue Of the crimes attend
ing the prosecution Of the war is too
long and too dreadful for repetition.
lit extended from the violation OF
solemn treaties, the treacherous I'M
dermining of friendly nations, the
poisoning of neutral minds, to the
unspeakable crimes of Armenian
slaughter under the German officers
L
scientific torture by poison gas and
fiame-throwers, the ravaging of
women, the mutilation of children,
the crucifixion of captured soldiers.
the sinking of hospital ships, the
bombing of hospitals, the murder of
innocent non-combatants and the vii
nameable horrors from which the
mind shrinks in shame to mention
them.
Germany's Just Punishment.
! And Germany's punishment has be-
gun to come upon her. She sought
ambitiously a place in the sun, which
corresponds to the prophets thought
of a nest among the stars. And she
has found that place. But it is not
a place of honor. 1t Is place where
the sun of revealing shines on her
stained and dishonored soul, place
where her every vileness is open to
the look of a wondering and indig-
nant world, where her uncleanness is
manifest so that decent nations pass
her by as leper and will have no
dealings of friendship with her. His
tory furnishes few parallels for her
defeat and none for her dishonor.
And men are asking what shall be
THE method and the measure of her
necessarily inadequate punishment
for having plunged the world into
four years Of loss and sorrow, rf
lheartbreak and desolated homes. CT
Imutilated manhood and violated
womanhood, of waste OF life and trea-
sure beyond computing.
Punishment Cannot Equal Crime.
! No nation could bear the penalty