Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg, and Saxony, the pastors of the
State Church preach hatred of Britain, as violently in their
pulpits as in their pastoral visits.

The pulpit orators, taking their tip from the Government, are also
exhorting their congregations to "hold out and win the war." I
know of one pastor in a good section of Berlin, however, who has
recently lost considerable influence in his congregation. Sunday
after Sunday his text has been, "Wir mussen durchhalten!" (We must
hold out!) "No sacrifice should be too great for the Fatherland,
no privation, too arduous to be endured if one but has the spirit
to conquer." He paid particular attention to the rapidly
increasing number of people who grumble incessantly over the
shortage of food. The good man was clearly losing patience with
those who complained.

One day thieves broke into his home and got away with an enormous
amount of hams and other edibles. I remind the reader that ham had
ere this become unknown in Berlin. Less than three hundred pigs
were being killed there per week where formerly twenty-five
thousand were slaughtered. The Government had more-over taken a
house-to-house inventory of food, and hoarding had been made
punishable by law.

The story, of course, never appeared in the papers, since such
divines are useful implements of the State, but the whole
congregation heard of it, with the disastrous consequence that the
good man's future sermons on self-denial fell upon stony ground.

One dear old lady, a widow, whose two sons had fallen in the war,