The Kaiser is presumably human, though, in the language of former
times, he is also presumably--if not undoubtedly--possessed of a devil,
or of many legions of devils.
How any human being can support the thought of the woeful red horror
into which he, deliberately, and of long-planned evil intention,
plunged the world passes the possibilities of human comprehension.
Deliberately, cold-bloodedly, for the simple purpose of furthering his
own ends, he has ordered the massacre of women and children in untold
multitudes, and his orders have been executed by the tools he fashioned
in the years of treacherous peace for the purpose. Executed too by
fiends in human shape who were forced to do as they were ordered or
take the consequences. Fathers of families themselves in many cases
no doubt, it is one of the marvels of this new savagery that men, so
calling themselves, could be found to do such deeds. Many of them have
gone to their account. The arch-fiend still survives.
And this man calls upon God to bless his evil doings!
“Suffer the little ones to come unto Me!” said Christ. And His wounded
heart must bleed afresh at knowledge of it all.
There was massacre of the innocents in Judea when Herod thought to save
himself by slaying the infant Christ with all the other children. But
Christ lived. The Kaiser out-Herods Herod, and slays Christ afresh in
the murder of all these little ones.
They are pitiful sacrifices to the blood-lust of this modern Moloch.
Their blood cries aloud to God. He is Justice. Their cries shall not
go unheard of Him. But by their death and the horror of it they are
helping to rid the world of the most monstrous tyranny which ever
aspired to rule it.