These brief articles are sparks struck as it were from the anvil of
events. They were written on trains, in hotels, in the intervals between
public addresses. During the past year beginning October 1, 1917, Dr.
Hillis, in addition to his work in Plymouth Church, and as President of
The Plymouth Institute, has visited no less than one hundred and
sixty-two cities, and made some four hundred addresses on "The National
Crisis," "How Germany Lost Her Soul," "The Philosophy of the German
Atrocities," and "The Pan-German Empire Plot," the substance of these
lectures and addresses being given in the book, "German Atrocities,"
heretofore published. These articles are illustrative of and
supplementary to the principles stated in that volume.
While consenting to publication, the author was not afforded opportunity
for full revision of this second volume, being again called over-seas
just as this book was being put into type. This will account for the
form in which the material appears.