366 THE KING’ S BUSINESS merely his way of proclaiming it— for his ‘God’ is Beelzebub, the Angel of Destruction, his creed the devil’s own, his aim and end a hell on earth. Never did Crusader lift battle-ax in holier war against the Saracen than is waged by our soldiers of the Cross against the German. The issues are indeed identical. “ If the world is to be saved from destruction—physical no less than spiritual destruction— it will be saved alone by the Christian religion. That eliminated leaves the earth to eternal war. For fifty years Germany has been organizing to supplant it with Kultur, the genius of infidelity. Her college professors have been obsessed with it. Her universities, have seethed with it. In acclaiming ‘Myself and God,’ the Kaiser has put the Imperial seal upon it. .When our armies have run it to its lair—when they have crushed it—naught will have been gained unless the glorious Banner of the Cross is hoisted—-even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness—and the misled masses of Germany are bade to gather about it and beneath it as sadly they collect the debris of their ruin for the reconstruction of the Fatherland. “ Let every American soldier swear this day—this Christmas morn—that he will link him and his with the Christ-childB-the Light of Love—that suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, that descended into Hell, that the third day arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty.” This certainly was a very appropriate Christmas message. We should moreover, bear in mind the fact that this same Kultur, “ the genius of Infidelity,” is what many professors in bur own land are striving hard to introduce into our Universities in their evolutionary teaching and in their promulgation of the Higher Criticism. If it obtains such a universal sway in our Universities, Colleges and High Schools as it has in Germany it will produce the same, results here that it did there. - “ The cry of ‘race suicide,’ when raised in a time of peace, provoked as much derision as serious thought. But the world-war has changed all that. The first official statistics coming out of Germany since the beginning of the war show that the rate of mortality in the Empire, not from injuries or wounds received in battle, or from the war death-rate, is twice that of the birth-rate. . . . . In France the problem is also acute. And there the law-makers are already considering measures for assisting and encouraging those who marry and -become parents. Under the terms of a proposed French law, the preamble of which declares that maternity is ‘the highest and greatest social function for which the Government should assume the responsibility,’ every Frenchwoman who works, or is in need, shall receive from 40 cents to $1 a day during the four months preceding the birth of a child. Fathers of large families, or mothers, shall be entitled to a yearly subsidy from the Gov ernment amounting to from $100 to $200, dependent upon the number of children.” The writer might.have gone on to call attention to the fact that one of the most fundamental reasons why France was helpless against Germany at the opening of the war, was because of her small birth rate, consequent upon D a c e su ic ide . A suggestive article has recently appeared in the St. Louis Globe- Democrat'. It reads'in part:
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