Kill Every German!

The man of God ascended the pulpit in his Paris church, looked down on his congregation. He saw the faces of those who had just come from the barricades and the smiting of the Boche. His sermon as reported by the New York Times:

"There is one thing that we must not forget. . . . It is not enough to win a victory. We saw that in 1918. What remains to be done is to kill every German. . . .

"Let us pray God to have the strength and courage to go on to the end. Every bullet must kill its Boche, every bomb must find its target. There must be no distinction between soldiers and civilians in the destruction of men, women and children. For we speak of a damned race.

"Once the destruction is over, legal minds may come, if they like, to establish international organizations that will perhaps be of some use--I do not know. But, in any case, the Germans who are already dead will be unable to fight again, or to multiply. I know that, when I speak as I do, I preserve the spirit of the Bible--at least of the Bible that is read from beginning to end and not only in its soft and gentle passages, because God is as terrible toward the evil as He is kind toward the good and humble.

"Let us therefore pray to God to exercise his severity against this people, to send it disasters and floods worse than anything until now, punishments more terrible than the ten plagues of Egypt. Let their towns be more completely destroyed than Jerusalem. The object is to finish for all time with those whom, mindful of certain passages in the Holy Bible, I may rightly call the damned Boche, the damned swinish Boche. So be it."

The congregation applauded.

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