f a truth these do not vainly die.
Not only are they crowned with fame, but by the noble manner of their
end they give the lie to Bernhardi and his school, who tell us that we
English are an effete and worn-out people, befogged with mean ideals;
lost in selfishness and the lust of wealth and comfort. Moreover, the
history of these deeds of theirs will surely be as a beacon to those
destined to carry on the traditions of our race in that new England
which shall arise when the cause of freedom for which we must fight and
die has prevailed--to fall no more.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

H. RIDER HAGGARD.

Ditchingham, Norfolk, Oct. 9.

*An Anti-Christian War*

*By Robert Bridges.*

_To the Editor of The [London] Times_:

Sir: Since the beginning of this war the meaning of it has in one
respect considerably changed, and I hope that our people will see that
it is primarily a holy war. It is manifestly a war declared between
Christ and the devil.

The conduct of the German conscripts has demonstrated that they have
been instructed to adopt in full practice the theories of their
political philosophers, and that they have heartily consented to do this
and freely commit every cruelty that they think will terrorize the
people whom they intend to crush. The details of their actions are too
beastly to mention.

Their philosophers, as I read them, teach openly that the law of love is
silly and useless, but that brutal force and cruelty are the useful and
proper means of attaining success in all things. Shortly, you are not to
do to others as you wish they should do to you, but you should do
exactly what you wish they should not do to you; that is, you should cut
their throats and seize their property, and then you will get on.

As for these enlightened philosophers, their doctrines are plainly an
apostasy from the Gospel--and this they do not scruple to avow; and
their tenets are only a recrudescence or reassertion of the barbarism
which we hoped we had grown out of; it is all merely damnable. But it
seems to me that, judged only as utilitarian policy, it is stupid; and
that they blundered in neglecting the moral force (for that is also a
force) of the antagonism that they were bound to arouse in all gentle
minds, whether simple or cultured. It was stupid of them not to perceive
that their hellish principles would shock everything that is most
beloved and living in modern thought, both the "humanitarian" t