Excerpt from Germany's World Ambitions and the Danger of a Prussianized Peace: A Sermon Preached at the Church of the Redeemer, Blackstone and E. Fifty-Sixth St., Chicago If we are to understand this tremendous Day of God, as the Bishop of London has so vividly styled it, we must look into history. Our gaze must be far and deep and long. When we thus obey our God and Saviour Jesus Christ, and master even slightly The Signs of the Times, we are fully men and women of the day. If we do not sweep the horizon of the Great War with the strongest lenses of history, we will fail and flounder in mere bewilderment, and be quite defenseless before the fearful onrush of danger hurled against us by our enemies. Germany is the supreme Tragedy of Christendom's History. She has endured a wretched past. Her people are at present obsessed by all the diabolisms which have ever lied and murdered, and - thank God, failed in the sequel. She is a race of slaves. Her people, once the frees't on the European continent, are but dumb, driven cattle, shackled and scourged by what may be called Prussianization. And Prussianization is the sum of all racial and national diseases. Modern Germany might have been a bearer of Christian Truth and of national honor. Instead, Germany has sold itself to the devil. Her tragedy is supreme. Her apostacy is a menace to the world. Let us ask how this bottomless pit has been dug for the Germans. Let us inquire how and why its master-diggers have been able finally to bury Liberty alive, and to wield this terrific lash over their enslaved fellow-countrymen. Let us dash the mask from the spying faces and lying lips of the Prussianizers, and force them, at the behest of their own history, to speak out their astounding plot against the Liberty and Brotherliness of the whole modern and future world. Four swiftly pictured scenes from Germany's history will tell the grisly story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.