The anti-German feelings engendered by the war are, we gret to note, finding expression in relation to a subject which should be far removed from anything of the kind, Letters have recently appeared in the "Guardian" inquiring whether Church people should continue to use hymns composed by Germans. In some it is actually suggested that they should not. Some of the finest hymn tunes that have ever been written are of German origin and the idea of discarding them cannot be too strongly denounced. Becauss we are at war with Germany are we to hate everything German, all her liter: aturs, her music and her art? Those things are eternal and enshrine some of the purest and_ loftiest thoughts and emotions of which humanity is capable. What in comparison will the present war be thousand years hence but a few, miserable, badly written lines -recording a period when the world went mad? steel barriers indeed closing in upon Germany on all sides?
On October 30 the military
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