“Against us stands the world’s greatest sham of a nation, the ’English cousin,’ the Judas among the nations, who betrays Germanism for thirty pieces of silver.  Against us stands sensual France, the harlot amongst the peoples.  Against us stands Russia, inwardly rotten, mouldering, masking its disease under outbursts of brutality.  Germany shall be the Israel of the future.  The Germans are guiltless, and from all sides testimonies are flowing in as to the noble manner in which our troops conduct the war.  We fight—­thanks and praise be to God—­for the cause of Jesus within mankind.  Verily the Bible is our book.  It was given and assigned to us, which proclaims to mankind salvation or disaster—­according as we will it.” [3]

Such quotations could be multiplied not only from German war sermons, but from some that have been preached in England and America as well.[4] The Archbishop of Canterbury says:  “I get letters in which I am urged to see to it that we insist upon ’reprisals, swift, bloody and unrelenting.  Let gutters run with German blood.  Let us smash to pulp the German old men, women and children,’ and so on.” [5]

Here is Henri de Regnier’s song of hate from France: 

  “I swear to cherish in my heart this hate
    Till my last heart-throb wanes;
  So may the sacred venom of my blood
    Mingle and charge my veins!

  May there pass never from my darkened brow
    The furrows hate has worn! 
  May they plough deeper in my flesh, to mark
    The outrage I have borne!

  By towns in flames, by my fair fields laid waste,
    By hostages undone,
  By cries of murdered women and of babes,
    By each dead warrior son, . . .

  I take my oath of hatred and of wrath
    Before God, and before
  The holy waters of the Marne and Aisne,
    Still ruddy with French gore;

  And fix my eyes upon immortal Rheims,
    Burning from nave to porch,
  Lest I forget, lest I forget who lit
    The sacrilegious torch!”

A poem recently written by an “Unbeliever” represents all the churches, Catholic and Protestant, Lutheran and Reformed, of the enemy and of the Allies, at last united in one message, which furnishes the recurring refrain of the poem, “In Jesus’ Name go forth and slay.”

With two-thirds of the world, representing more than twenty nations, already dragged into the widening vortex of the present war; with more than five millions of the finest youth of Europe already slaughtered on the battlefield, with twenty millions who have already been wounded, nearly forty millions under arms, and whole nations organized for war and the manufacture of munitions; with the flood tide of impurity and immorality which war has brought in its train; with the barbarism and cruelty, poison gas, flaming oil, and organized destruction used at present on the battlefields of Europe, is it not time for the Church to set her