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A great many inquiries reach us concerning: The Funda- mentals,;: and we take this opportunity of answering the
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, First, no further copies of The Fundamentals are to be published. Second, no complete sets of back numbers can be supplied. Volumes two, three, four and five are entirely exhausted. Third, a few copies of volumes one, seven and eleven are on hand, and a large number oL volumes six, eight, nine, ten and twelve. It is the purpose of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, to which institu tion the plates have been given, at an early date to print in pamphlet form some of the best articles contained in the twelve volumes, and to form from them a “Fundamental Library.” These pamphlets will be sold at as low a price as possible. Address all communications to the Bible Institute Book Room. ---------------- We have recently received from an earnest Chris- Demorahzmg tian woman in Berlin a communication in which Influence of War she says, “The Americans here in Berlin have had an opportunity to see the German people from closest view and all to whom we have spoken share the opinion that German soldiers are incapable of any such brutalities as are attributed to them.” The question, however, is not what we think men are incapable of as we see them at home,'but what they do when inflamed by war, and what has actually occurred. The demoralizing effect of war is almost incredible to one who has^ had no experience in war. Men who are most kindly and upright men in times of peace, oftentimes become perfect brutes in times of war. We do not believe all the stories of atrocities committed by German soldiers that we have heard and read, but some of the stories are proven to a demonstra tion to be true, incredible as they seem. The awful Falaba incident, the facts that are proven about it, show what a high type of Germans are capable ot when they have been demoralized by the influence of war. The murder of women, children and cripples by Zeppelin raiders, inflamed with a lust for blood, shows the same thing. Moreover, unfortunately, the atrocities are not limited to German soldiers. We hold in our hand as we write a missionary periodical that tells what Ger man missionaries, and even American missionaries connected with German Boards, were subjected to at the hands of English soldiers and English officers. Their mission stations were plundered, they were shipped off to detention camps and subjected to indignities. One missionary woman in perfect health, but with a little child, was subjected to such hardships that she died. We will not go into the details of the awful story, but there seems to be no possibility of doubting its truth. It is simply an illustration of the demoralizing effect of war, both upon officers and men. Wrongs were committed against women by troops in South Africa during the Boer war that were shocking. This, we have from one who was in South Africa at the time and sympathized with the English. We have seen the same effect of war upon Americans. We were with our troops at Chickamauga during the Spanish-American war and a personal witness to something so awful that we could not put it in print. We saw young men belonging to good families, sometimes college men, turned into vile offenders. We do not mean
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