100 THE KING’S BUSINESS impaired, or has it steeled religion? I say it has steeled it, . . . This is not relapse to a lower level, but a biounting up to God Himself.” Who will desire to study New Testament theology under a man who is Capable of such an infamous and Satanic utterance as this. He says again on page 24: “There is a gospel saying which bursts the bonds of its original historical meaning and takes new wings in the storm of the world-war, a saying which we may weir take as the consecration of our German mission : ‘Ye are the salt of the earth! ye are the light of the world!’ ” Such a perversion of the words of our Lord needs no comment, but it is amazing as coming from a professor of New Testament Exegesis. He says again on page 24: “In the age .of the most remendous mobilization of physical and spiritual forces the world has ever seen, we proclaim—no we do not proclaim it but it reveals itself— the religion of strength.” Prof. Friedrich Delitzsch of Berlin University, the noted Assyrologist has had quite a vogue in this country in destructive critical circles since the publica tion some years ago of his book “Babel und Bibel.” He must not be confused with his father, the great commentator, Franz Delitzsch, who was the beloved instructor of the writer pf .this article, Friedrich Delitzsch says in the same Series of pamphlets to which reference has already .been made, No. 13, page 21: “Do you not see, Albion, that the German Michel, on whom you look down with such contempt, is now transformed into the archangel Michal, and encountering you with his flaming sword, triumphs over the race of the fallen angels and of the offspring of hell?” He says again in the same pamphlet, page 20: “Another vice has been developed to its highest pitch in this war: to wit, lying. England in particular has established a record in this department, even as against the Father of Lies, the Devil.”;, . , ; ■ ; / ; f These are simply specimen utterances of the leading thinkers, philoso phers, scientists, theologians, literary critics of Germany, and they illustrate how absolutely incapable of fair and judicious reasoning these german profes sors are. It is the same method of reasoning that they have exhibited in their many- productions along the iines of destructive criticism of the Bible which they have issued during many years. It makes for the progress of true thought that they and their theories are necessarily discredited by these recent utter ances.
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