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reminded of the remark made to an American ecclesiastic 

 by an eminent German theological professor regarding 

 that tough old monarch, Frederick William I; namely, 

 that while he was deeply religions, his religion was &quot;of 

 an Old Testament type.&quot; Of course, the religion of the 

 present Emperor is of a type vastly higher than that of 

 his ancestor, whose harshness to the youth who after 

 ward became the great Frederick has been depicted 

 in the &quot;Memoirs&quot; of the Margravine of Bayreuth; but 

 there remains clearly in the religion of the present Em 

 peror a certain &quot;Old Testament&quot; character a feeling 

 of direct reliance upon the Almighty, a consciousness 

 of his own part in guiding a chosen people, and a readi 

 ness, if need be, to smite the Philistines. One phase of 

 this feeling appears in the music at the great anniver 

 saries, when the leading men of the empire are brought 

 together beneath the dome of the Palace Church. The an 

 thems executed by the bands and choirs, and the great 

 chorals sung by the congregation, breathe anything but 

 the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount ; they seem rather 

 to echo the grim old battle-hymns of the Thirty Years 

 War and the war in the Netherlands. 



And yet it must be said that there goes with this a 

 remarkable feeling of justice to his subjects of other con 

 fessions than his own, and a still more remarkable breadth 

 of view as regards the relations of modern science to what 

 is generally held as orthodox theology. The fearlessness 

 with which he recently summoned Professor Delitzsch to 

 unfold to him and to his family and court the newly re 

 vealed relations of Assyrian research to biblical study, 

 which gave such alarm in highly orthodox circles, and 

 Ms fairness in estimating these researches, certainly re 

 vealed breadth of mind as well as trust in what he con 

 sidered the fundamental verities of religion. 



A good example of the curious union, in his mind, of 

 religious feeling, tolerance, and shrewd policy is shown 

 in various dealings with his Roman Catholic subjects. 



Of course he is not ignorant that his very existence as 



