THE KAISER AND GOD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2279, 13 October 1914, Page 6

THE KAISER AND GOD

'"I .rejoice 'With you in rWilhelm's first victory. Row magnificently God supported h'im!"—Telegram from ~',the -Kaiser to the Crown Princess after the '. battle of lions. Led by Wilhelm, as you. tell, God has done extremely well; ■You with patronizing nod Show that you approve of God.. Kaiser, face a question new— ; This—does God approve of you? .Broken pledges, treaties torn, Your first page of war adorn; ■ ■..._• We on fouler things must look Who read further in that book, Where you did in time of war All that you in peace forswore, i ' Where you, barbarously. wise, . - Bade your soldiers terrorise, • ' Where you made—the deed was fine— Women screen your' firing line, ■ Villages burned down to dust, Torture, murder, bestial lust, , / . Filth too foul for printer's ink, Crimes' from which the apes would shrink— - Strange the offerings that you press On the God of. Righteousness! • ■ '.'.-. ■■'■ : •'■• Kaiser, when you'd decorate Som or friends who serve, your State, Not that Iron Cross bestow ,But a Cross of Wood, and so— ' *- . So remind the world that you • Have made Calvary anew. ... Kaiser, when you'd kneel in prayer , Look upon your hands, and there ■ Let that deep and awful stain From the blood of children slain Burn your very soul with shame, Till you dare not breathe that Name That now you glibly advertise— God as one of your allies. , • ' Impious braggart, 'you forget; ..••'■' God is not your conscript yet; . You shall learn in" dumb amaze That His ways are not your ways, That the mire through which you trod Is not the high white road of God, . : To yyhom, whichever way the combat rolls, We, fighting to the end, commend our souh.-. —Barry Pain, in "The Times."'