m THE KING'S BUS INESS Voi. 6 JANUARY, 1915 No. 1 International Hatred. K |jE THAT hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, ^ and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath (toblinded his eyes.” One of the most awful things about the present I war is the international- hatreds that have been aroused. Many 2 papers are publishing “A Chant of Hate Against England” by Ernest Eissauer, printed in a German paper, “Jugend.” We have not read anything more Satanic in many a long year. We give one stanza of this appalling production:
“French and Russian, they matter not, A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot; We love them not, we hate them not, We hold the Weichsel and Vosges gate, We have but one and only hate, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone. He is known to you all, he is known to you all, He crouches behind the dark gray flood, . Full of envy, of rags, of craft, of gall, Cut off by waves that are thicker than blood. Come, let us stand at the judgment place, An oath to swear to, face to face, An oath of bronze no wind can shake, An oath for our sons and their sons to take. • Come, hear the word, repeat the word, Throughout the Fatherland make it heard,
We will never forego our hate, We have all but a single hate, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone— ENGLAND!”
There are those who are praising the virility and strength of this poem. Strong it is, and the devil is strong, and this poem is devilish. No other word fitly characterizes it. Cain, who hated and slew his brother, was of the wicked one (1 John 3:12), and any one who can write such words of Satanic hatred is of the devil. International hatreds are just as Satanic as individual hatreds. No manifestation of such unadulterated Satanism has, as far as we know, thus far appeared in any English journal, and yet we have seen things that make one shudder. Two whole pages of a London paper, the Daily Mail, were given up to an advertisement by a drug company, the whole thought of which was that it was no longer necessary to buy drugs of the hated Germans,—substitutes
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