Who pays
the piper must in future call the tune.
"The world has suffered much too long.
O wonder of the ages--
O marvel of all time--
This wonderful great patience of the peoples!
How long, O Lord, how long?"
The answer cannot come too soon for the good of the world.
JOHN OXENHAM.
[Illustration: VOX POPULI SUPREMA LEX
The Kaiser: "Don't bother about your people, Tino. People only have to
applaud what we say."]
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THE CHRISTMAS OF KULTUR, A.D. 1915
Mary, worn with grief and fear, covers her emaciated face with scarred
hands, as she kneels in prayer before the infant Jesus. Joseph, grown
old and feeble, nails up a barricade of planks to strengthen the door
against the missiles of Kultur already bursting through it and
threatening the sleeping child. So in that first Christmas, nineteen
centuries ago, he saved Mary's child from the baby-massacre ordered by
Herod to preserve his own throne.
Kultur, the gathered wisdom of the ages, has brought us back to the same
Holy War. What a Christmas! What a Festival of Peace and goodwill
towards men!
People ask: Why does God allow it? Is God dead? Foolish questions. When
I was at school I had the good fortune to be under a great teacher whose
name is honoured to-day. He used to tell us that the most terrible verse
in the Bible was: "So He gave them up unto their own hearts' lust and
they walked in their own counsels" (Ps.
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