Germany is the center of God’s plans for the world.  Germany’s fight against the whole world is in reality the battle of the spirit against the whole world’s infamy, falsehood and devilish cunning.

And here is Pastor K. Koenig: 

     It was God’s will that we should will the war.

And Pastor J. Rump: 

     Our defeat would mean the defeat of His Son in humanity.  We
     fight for the cause of Jesus within mankind.

And here is an eminent theological professor: 

The deepest and most thought-inspiring result of the war is the German God.  Not the national God such as the lower nations worship, but “our God,” who is not ashamed of belonging to us, the peculiar acquirement of our heart.

#King Cotton#

It is a cheap way to gain applause in these days, to denounce the Prussian system; my only purpose is to show that Bible-worship, precisely as saint-worship or totem-worship, delivers the worshipper up to the Slavers.  This truth has held in America, precisely as in Prussia.  During the middle of the last century there was fought out a mighty issue in our free republic; and what was the part played in this struggle by the Bible-cults?  Hear the testimony of William Lloyd Garrison:  “American Christianity is the main pillar of American slavery.”  Hear Parker Pillsbury:  “We had almost to abolish the Church before we could reach the dreadful institution at all.”

In the year 1818 the Presbyterian General Assembly, which represented the churches of the South as well as of the North, passed by a #unanimous# vote a resolution to the effect that “Slavery is utterly inconsistent with the law of God, which requires us to love our neighbor as ourselves.”  But in a generation the views of the entire South, including the Presbyterian Church, had changed entirely.  What was the reason?  Had the “law of God” been altered?  Had some new “revelation” been handed down?  Nothing of the kind; it was merely that a Yankee by the name of Eli Whitney had perfected a machine to take the seeds out of short staple cotton.  The cotton crop of the South increased from four thousand bales in 1791 to four hundred and fifty thousand in 1820 and five million, four hundred thousand in 1860.

There was a new monarch, King Cotton, and his empire depended upon slaves.  According to the custom of monarchs since the dawn of history, he hired the ministers of God to teach that what he wanted was right and holy.  From one end of the South to the other the pulpits rang with the text:  “Cursed be Canaan; a servant to servants shall he be to his brethren.”  The learned Bishop Hopkins, in his “Bible View of Slavery”, gave the standard interpretation of this text: