[_The Taegliche Rundschau_ has published an article by Judge
VON ZASTROW, of Berlin, on the Future National Church. It is
to unite religion and love of the Fatherland; to reconcile
the Sermon on the Mount with war; to make room for Pietists,
Materialists, and Laodiceans; and to remove all sectional and
sectarian differences. In short, the Church will bathe itself
in "the new streams of German power, it will drink from the
water which will make our German Will strong and healthy for
battle. Our German piety, our German Christianity will assume
an heroic colouring, in place of the sentimental tone which
has hitherto characterised it."]
When the fighting is finally over,
And victory smiles on our land,
And we 're living in comfort and clover,
We must take our religion in hand;
We must make it heroic and German,
With "Fatherland-love" as its fount;
We must reconcile War with the Sermon
Once preached on the Mount.
'Twill embrace the disciples of HAECKEL'S
Monistic material creed,
The Mammonite worship of shekels,
The gospel of hunger and greed;
And the layman, so Laodicean,
No more his devotions will shirk,
But will kneel with the mild Manichean,
The amiable Turk.
In fine, there'll be nothing sectarian
In Germany's National Church;
And the pedants, Pelagian and Arian,
Will be knocked from their petulant perch;
All paltry divisions 'twill level
That tend to enfeeble the Hun,
And the worship of God and the Devil
Will merge into one.
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"Miss ---- has a sweet voice.... Perhaps her greatest appeal
was simplicity and an entire lack of effectiveness."
_"Journal," Meriden, Conn._
We have singers just like that in the old country, too.
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"Lieutenant ---- is reported wounded by the War
Office."--_Liverpool Daily Post._
He is not the only one who has been hurt by this agency.
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"WANTED immediately for Boys' Industrial School (temporarily
and possibly permanently), an All-round Tanner."--_Natal
Mercury._
There is evidently a good deal of leathering to be done.
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