THE KING’S BUSINESS 99 crime in world-history’ lies at the door of England alone and that she has for more than forty years been plotting the annihilation of her dangerous German competitor, has been established by numerous facts.” On page 61 of the same book he says: “The President of the United States, Professor Wilson . . . allows American munition works to supply bur enemies with unlimited quan tities of war material, favors the infamous design of England to starve out Germany, and rises in his ‘peace’ speeches to a height of political and religious hypocrasy in no way inferior to that attained by the English ‘million-murderer’ Grey.” In the field of Biblical Criticism the name of Adolf Harnack stood as high as any. He has been regarded as the one preeminent ecclesiastical his torian. He is a Doctor of Theology, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Medicine, and Doctor of Law, a professor at the University of Berlin. With many, what Harnack said was an end of all controversy. But Harnack’s' dependability as a thinker and logician will no longer be trusted by those who are familiar with what he has said in recent days. In October 1914 in the International Monat- schrift, etc., page 26, he says: “If we are beaten-jfiwhich God and our strong arm forbid—all the highest Kultur of our hemisphere, which it was our mis sion to guard, sinks with us into the grave.” In 1914 again, in “What We Have Already Won, and What We Have Yet to Win,” he says: “The International Lie-Press has given us a fourth Great Power against Germany* and deluges the world with lies against our magnificent and strongly moral army, and slanders everything that is German. I propose that in the treaty of peace we should claim a special Milliard 1 as indemnity for lies.” In other words, he demands an overwhelming money indemnity as compensation for the lies that he alleges the enemies in Germany have been telling. How fair and reliable and dependable he is as an historian is evident from this., In the same issue of the Internationale Monatschrift, etc. to which we have already referred, Octo ber 1, 1914, on page 25, he says: “England thinks the hour has come fqr our annihilation. Why should she want to annihilate us ? Because she cannot for give our strength, our industry, our prosperity! There is no other explana tion!” He even goes so far (in this same periodical, same issue, page 23) as to defend Germany’s conduct in Belgium. He says, “Our Chancellor has, with the scrupulous conscience peculiar to him, admitted that we were guilty of a certain wrong (Harnack refers to the wrong done Belgium).: Here I cannot follow him. . . . ' When David, in the pinch of necessity, took the shew bread from the table of the Lord, he was absolutely in the right; for at that Moment the letter of the law no longer existed.” In other words, Harnack defends Germany’s infamous violation of her word toward Belgium by saying that it was necessary, and therefore it was right. Probably not many. Ameri can, English, or Scotch students, from now on, will desire to sit at the feet of Harnack. In the theological world, few names, if any, of German professors, have stood higher than that of Prof. Gustav Adolf Deissmann, Professor of New Testament Exegesis at Berlin. The Universities of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, and. Manchester, have conferred honorary degrees upon him. In the series of pamphlets issued by the professors of Berlin University, “German Speeches in Difficult Days,” issued in 1914-1915, in Pamphlet .No. 9, page 16, Deissmann writes: “The German God is not only the theme of some bf our poets and prophets, but also a historian like Max Lenz has, with fiery tongue and in deep thankfulness borne witness to the revelation of the German God in our holy war, the German, the national God! . . . Has war in this case
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