"STRICKEN GERMANY"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9

"STRICKEN GERMANY"

Dr; Conrad, fonnerly one of the exKaiser's Court'preachers, addressing hie Berlin congregation .recently, used Ihot-e words in speaking of "stricken Germany" —"May wo then, turn from our evil ways, may we then turn from our pride, our injustice, - ■iiur unworthy aims, our base.' .selfish, sinful ulesires, and find iii' Kiiu tho satisfaction of all our desires." -.- .■..:■..-■■

But (he most strilum,' words arc (hose of Dr. l-'ussbinclcr,- a"li'nmciecan monk, to a Catholic.confraternity at Munich:— "We wanted to gain the whole world, and were willing to barter our souls for Hie prize. Would it have" profited-us? ,"hen 1 reflect; upon the. iniquity and •.sin'which governed, our lives.both" as.a Slate-and. as individuals,-! am forced to believe that: it. was wide,-' avarice, greed, and pnrj- of Tie, w<?fiue of others which' were Iho active driving forces witiiin-ns; Think of what world doniininn would have made of us fjermuns. We should-havo walked the earth as Rods..- .-Suiieivilioiii-ly we. should hare, looked down upon the .'inferior races' of mankind, and .not-a-chink or crnnny would-have-been left in our br.l7.en iir--.nioiir through ■ which thn divine gr.icn of chiiritv, bumilily, ;ind ninny might outer. -We.lin.ve sinned grinvously, we have disgraced our- (icrnuiu mime, andit will be God's own way of healing 'is if Ho ca.'ls us on the bed of humiliation, and does nol, stretch mil Jlis Almijjhf.v Hand to raise us until we. are again ready to walk with Him and Ho with up. , "