d--Germany came into her own and inevitably
leads the world. She represents the perfection of organized
physical and mental powers which are the antitheses of the
Christ ideal.

And so you never hear much in Deutschland about Peace and Good
Will, Do as You would be Done by, Faith, Hope and Charity and
the greatest of these is Charity. Such Christian texts and
mottoes, which fill our American homes, churches and public
places, are little in evidence in Germany because they do not
enter into the life. The popular nomenclature is pagan rather
than Biblical. Already in this war we behold the Kaiser drawing
his names for forts and trenches from his wild pagan mythology,
not from Christian sources. And in Deutschland, acts in the
field count for so much more than words in the pulpit.

If the Huns win, Teuton hate will, of course, succeed Christian
love as the human creed. Friendship, as we know it, will largely
cease to exist. Friends will be those who can be cowed into
truculence or bought. There will be no truth, justice, equity,
in our meaning. Only the will or whim of the Emperor. His State
Church, with its worship of Him, will grow as _the_ church.

Everything that southern and western Europe stands for, from
ancient Greece to the northern points of Scotland and Ireland
(with America in addition)--beauty, loveableness, the
brightness of life with its joyousness, gayety, grace,
charm--will be stamped down under the metallic heels of the
Kaiser's battalions and bureaucrats....

* * * * *

_Boulogne, January, 1915_.

After what I have written you from Germany, and since, about my
unexpected disillusionment, you will ask me:

"Well, enough of this. What ought to be done or can be done
about it?"

I am thinking about a solution. Not original, for its framework
was suggested by my old journalistic friend. I will send you an
outline of his idea as he gave it to me one day. All that he
said and prophesied has come so direfully true that I have now
full faith and confidence in his vision and practical sense on
the subject of the Goth race. For he _lived_ and observed among
them seven years.

That's the great point--_living together_. And I do not mean
living together when people are mature or old but when
_young_--when minds, sym