written in a curious hysterical fashion.

The admixture of Biblical references and German boasting are
typical of the lessons taught at German Sunday Schools, which play
a great role in war propaganda. The schoolmaster having done his
work for six days of the week, the pastor gives an extra virulent
dose on the Sabbath. Sedan Day, which before the war was the
culmination of hate lessons, often formed the occasion of Sunday
School picnics, at which the children sang new anti-French songs.

There are some traits in German children most likeable. There are,
for example, the respect for, and courtesy and kindness towards,
anybody older than themselves. There are admiration for learning
and ambition to excel in any particular task. There is a genuine
love of music. On the other hand, there is much dishonesty, as may
be witnessed by the proceedings in the German police courts, and
has been proved in the gold and other collections.

The elimination of real religion in the education of children and
the substitution of worship of the State is, in the minds of many
impartial observers, something approaching a national catastrophe.
In any other community it would probably be accompanied by anarchy.
It certainly has swelled the calendar of German crime. German
statistics prove that every sort of horror has been greatly on the
increase in the last quarter of a century.

I went to Germany the first time under the impression that the
Anglo-Saxon had much to learn from German education. I do not
think that any observer in Germany itself to-day would find
anything valuable to learn in the field of education, except when