366 » THE KING’S BUSINESS wretch. When Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to conquer this world, he mus tered his forces and all Europe was drenched in blood; and Napoleon died a defeated wretch at St. Helena. But when Jesus Christ wanted tdconquer the earth He looked at it, loved it, walked to Calvary, and laid down and died for it; and Christ has well-nigh conquered the world. Napoleon said: ‘Alex ander, Charlemagne and myself founded our kingdoms on force, and they have crumbled under our feet; but Jesus Christ founded His kingdom on love, and today millions of men would die for. Him.’ ” The German newspapers still give evidence of the bitter “Love Your hate that is rankling in the hearts, not merely of one Ger- Enemies” man here and another there, but of a large body of Ger mans, toward all Englishmen. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” says: “No self-respecting German will ever consent to remain in any room of which an Englishman is the occupant. If the German cannot eject the Englishman, he will himself leave the room. We cannot be expected to breathe the same polluted air as our deadliest foes who fell upon us from the rear and in the night. There can be no compromise on this point. We have to swear a national vendetta against the English never to rest, never to cease our preparations for another war, never to spare an effort until the last sem blance of English power is destroyed, and there will be no rest or repose for any honest German until the British Empire has been swept into the oblivion of past history.” Even more sad is it to see that this bitter, demoniacal hatred is not con fined to the English, but is vented toward all who do not see eye to eye with the Germans on the matter of this war. In the same paper we read : “Finally, there are thé neutral nations ; most of them side in sympathy with the English, Russians and French; most of them entertain hostile feelings against Ger many. We do not need them. They are not necessary to our happiness nor to our material interests. Let us ban them from our homes and our tables. Let us make them feel that we despise them. They must understand that they are condemned to be left out in the cold, just because they do not merit German approval. Germany must and will ,stand alone. The Germans are the salt of the earth; they will fulfill their destiny which is to rule the world and to control other nations for the benefit of mankind.” These words need no comment. If we could believe that they really express the sentimeht'of the German people as a whole, we would be forced to believe that the German nation had gone mad with egotism and selfishness. They probably do not express the real sentiment even of the editor of the paper. It is reported that the author of the poem of devilish hate referred to in a previous number of T he K ing ’ s B usiness has been decorated by the govern ment as an expression of approval of this awful poem. We trust that this report is untrue. It would be a national disgrace if it were true. It is our ambition to make T he K ing ’ s B usiness the most What Helps helpful magazine possible for ministers, Sunday School You Most? superintendents, Sunday School teachers and all Christian workers. In making it so, we desire the co-operation of our readers. It would greatly help us in our future plans for the magazine, if each reader would write and tell us what part of the magazine they enjoy
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