GALILEE OR CORSICA!

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2320, 30 November 1914, Page 6

GALILEE OR CORSICA!

ANTI-CHRISTIAN SPIRIT IN GERMANY. The Rev. A. M. Johnson, who lias just returned from a visit to England, made 6ome interesting references to the'-war in his sermon at St. Paul's Anglican Pro-Cathedral yesterday morning. Ho said ''the present colossal struggle would have amazed Napoleon himself by its immensity. People in this part of the world did not realise what war meant with-tho same intensity as the people of Great Britain. It was a grim fact wherever one went in England. London was in darkness at night except for the gleams »of light searching for the enemy. The war had made us revise many of our estimates of tilings. Before tho struggle commenced we knew that Gerniany was a determined aggressor, but we did not fully understand the spirit of the enemy. The destruction of lleinis Cathedral and similar ruthless acts were allied to that German spirit of destruction whinh had torn the Bible in pieces. German critics had bombarded Jesus Christ Himself. Britain had gone to war as a Christian nation. .Christ had never condemned war, though .He recognised its awfulness and taught us to be at peace with our neighbours. Christ would not have condemned such a war as we had entered into to help Belgium. AA'e simply had to go to war. There were times when' Christianity demanded not peace, but a. sword. Mr. Johnson went, on to show how German leaders of thought had taught that Britain stood in Germany's way; that Britain was a great sham; and that the Gormans should build an. Empire on .the ruins of decadent England. Mr. Jolinson held that there/ could be no true Empire without religion. Religion, still existed 'in Germany, especially among the.peasants; but'at the top anti-Chris-tian impulses had been at work which had driven the country into war. What liad the Germans to offer to the world they hoped to conquer? The leligion of Nietzsche, the author of "AntiChrist," who died a lunatic. They were faced with the alternative of Nietzsche or Jesus Christ. Napoleon was the German ideal of a general? and that ideal fitted in with the new religion. According to Professor Crambe the new German spirit was imbued with Hie belief that Corsica had conquered Galilee. , AA'orld domination or ruin now lay before Germany.-'