Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1917 — GERMANS TO REWRITE BIBLE [ARTICLE]

GERMANS TO REWRITE BIBLE

One of the First Tasks They Propose to Undertake on Conclusion of War. The Hague.—According to a copy of the German newspaper Kreuzzeltung of Berlin, just received here, the Germans are going to rewrite the Bible. The article says: “If any further proof were needed of the immeasurable superiority of the Germans, intellectually and morally, over the rest of mankind, it is to be found in the mental attitude of our people toward the Bible as compared with that of other nations. “The English regard that book as their most valuable commercial asset, and use It mainly as a form of barter with savage tribes for their good will, their assistance, and the -supply of their natural - products, and in England Itself It is exploited solely in the propagation of that spirit of hypocrisy which has stood the British in such good stead for ages to hoodwink and despoil other races, “It must be one of our first tasks on the conclusion of this war, when Germany shall rise out of it renewed in power and vitality like another phoenix; to set a board of qualified experts to work to produce, not only for our own benefit, but also for the moral uplift of mankind, a new, a more glorious, a purer Bible, instinct with the German spirit of kultur and morality.”