n will the German be able to pray again, confessing:

God is the Orient,
God is the Occident;
Northernmost and Southern lands
Rest in peace beneath His hands.

We shall hope that God may give us strength to make this true, not only
for us but for all Europe.

Until then, since we see the very springs of our higher life and our
existence threatened, we shout: "Father, protect our springs of life and
save us from the Huns."

*A Reply to Prof. Harnack*

*By Some British Theologians.*

Prof. Harnack.

Honored Sir: We, the undersigned, a group of theologians who owe more
than we can express to you personally and to the great host of German
teachers and leaders of thought, have noticed with pain a report of a
speech recently delivered by you, in which you are said to have
described the conduct of Great Britain in the present war as that of a
traitor to civilization.

We are quite sure that you could never have been betrayed into such a
statement if you had been acquainted with the real motives which actuate
the British Nation in the present crisis.

Permit us, in the interests of a better understanding now and
subsequently, to state to you the grounds on which we, whose obligations
to Germany, personal and professional, are simply incalculable, have
felt it our duty to support the British Government in its declaration of
war against the land and people we love so well.

We are not actuated by any preference for France over Germany--still
less by any preference for Russia over Germany. The preference lies
entirely the other way. Next to the peoples that speak the English
tongue, there is no people in the world that stands so high in our
affection and admiration as the people of Germany. Several of us have
studied in German universities. Many of us have enjoyed warm personal
friendship with your fellow-countrymen. All of us owe an immeasurable
debt to German theology, philosophy, and literature. Our sympathies are
in matters of the spirit so largely German that nothing but the very
strongest reasons could ever lead us to contemplate the possibility of
hostile relations between Great Britain and Germany.

Nor have we the remotest sympathy with any desire to isolate Germany, or
to restrict her legitimate expansion, commercial and colonial. We have
borne resolute witness against the endeavor made by foes of Germany to
foment anti-German suspicion and ill-will in the minds of our
fellow-count