There will be no curtailment in the courses offered during the coming year as compared with those offered during the last several years. You will, therefore, be able to form a clear idea of what opportunities a student would have here to become acquainted not only with the language side of German but also the literature, both classical and modern, of the German nation. Last year there were more students in this department than ever before and I expect at least as large a number during the coming year, though there probably will be a falling off in attendance owing to the war. This is decidedly a broad-minded, intelligent and liberal though intensely patriotic community. All of us are good Americans, but our faculty is composed of university trained men, many of whom have lived in Europe and have a first-hand knowledge of European conditions.-Wm. H. Wannamaker, Professor of German and Dean of the College.

Newark Academy, Newark, N. J.-Replying to your inquiry of August 2nd, I would say that the Newark Academy will continue to offer courses of instruction in German. In spite of the war, we still consider German an important subject for instruction, and have in no way changed our policy concerning it. Naturally, we retain on our staff the German teacher whom we have had for thirty-five years, a German American of Schleswig-Holstein nativity.-Morton Snyder, Assistant Head Master.

William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri.—The German department is one of the strongest in our college. One of the professors is a native of Germany.

At your request I will give you our views. No nation has a greater literature than the German nation and much of it is modern. But much of the last fifty years has either reflected the feeling in the German people that might makes right, or it has kindled in the German people that spirit.

You make it awfully hard for the fair-minded American to deal justly with German literature and with our German fellow-citizens. We know many of them are absolutely true and loyal to the Stars and Stripes.

William Jewell has already furnished more men to this war than any other college in Missouri, and I think than any other college in the West. But we shall go on teaching the German language and the German literature, and shall hope that when the Germans are brought to their senses they will study English and American literature and find therein the secret of democracy that has made these nations great and the hope of the world.J. E. Cook, Secretary and Treasurer.

Massanutten Academy, Woodstock, Va.-The present situation does not affect us as to Germany's contributions to Art, Science, Literature, etc. We have the international vision, regardless of decades, eras or epochs, and our curriculum shall not be changed to meet temporary hysteria. The problem is larger and more vital than that. We shall teach on as we have been doing, with academic aims in view.-H. J. Benchoff, President.

The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Office of the President.Your favor of the 2nd inst. addressed to the University of Chicago is received. It is perfectly obvious that there is no "prejudice" against German literature or other higher things of German life in intelligent circles in this country. We are at war with the ruling forces which have made Germany a danger to civilization, and not against the finer forces which we hope some day will again be dominant in Germany.-Henry Fred Judson.

The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.-We have no intention of dicouraging the study of the German language, or of German Art or Music. It is, as you say, quite clear that we are not opposed to German accomplishments in these lines. There are probably two hundred students in the school studying German each year. We have a Deutscher Verein with frequent meetings, lectures, etc., dealing with things German.-Fietcher N. Robinson, Assistant to the Principal.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va.-Replying to your inquiry of August 2nd, we teach French, German, and Spanish at this institution, and have not altered the courses in any particular on account of the war, nor do we expect to alter them.-J. D. Eggleston, President.

Indiana Dental College, Indianapolis.-Indiana Dental College accepts students of all nationalities without prejudice.

We are not so narrow as to fail to credit those things which Germany has done for the good of literature and science. We accept everything that is of advantage to our students regardless of where it originated.-F. R. Henshaw, Dean. From "Viereck's American Weekly".

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THE CENTRAL TRUTH OF THE REFORMATION.

The late scholar, Max Mueller, who spent so much time translating the so-called Sacred Books of the East, made the following statement: "In the discharge of my duties for 40 years as professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford, I have devoted as much time as any man living to the study of the Sacred Books of the East, and I have found the one keynote-the one diapason, so to speak-of all those so-called sacred books, whether it be the Veda of the Brahmans, the Puranas of Siva or Vishnu, the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Zend-Avesta of the Parsees, the Tripitaka of the Buddhists -the one refrain through all is salvation by works. They all say that salvation must be purchased, must be bought with a price; and that the sole price, the sole purchase-money. must be our own works and deservings. Our own holy Bible, our Sacred Book of the East, is from beginning to end a protest against this doctrine.

"Good works are, indeed, enjoined upon us in that sacred Book of the East far more strongly than in any other sacred book of the East; but they are only the outcome of the grateful heart-they are only a thank-offering, the fruits of our faith. They are never the ransom money of the true disciples of Christ. Let us not shut our eyes to what is excellent and true and of good report in these sacred books, but let us teach Hindus, Buddhists, and Mohammedans that there is only one sacred Book of the East that can be their mainstay in that awful hour when they pass all alone into the unseen world. It is the sacred Book which contains that faithful saying, worthy to be received of all men, women, children-that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."

These words of the learned German Professor, who has translated all the sacred books of the East into English, come from one who speaks with authority. They certainly put in the clearest language the fundamental issue between the Orient and the Occident, yea, the real issue in human history, past and future. We make an unpardonable blunder if we think that the Church of Crist will have fulfilled her mission in the Orient when she shall have destroyed all the idols of wood and stone. The battle is really not one with dumb material idols nor one of the sword, but it is a battle of the mind and soul-of books-of one sacred book of the East against all the other sacred books of the East. The battle was waged once in the Orient and once in the Occident. In the Orient the one Book apparently lost and was exterminated from the East by the cunning of Satan and the depravity of man. It found a refuge in the West where it was again powerfully attacked by the same everlasting enemies, but here however the one Book gained the victory.

God's Best Gift To Us Is A Book.

Do we realize that the most precious gift of our heavenly Father to us, his children, is in the form of a book? In that book God has given us all that we need; outside of it he has promised us nothing. We are indebted alone to the goodness of God that we are able to read and that we have something really good to read. Through his servant Moses, God commanded the Israelites to preserve the book of the law in the ark of God and put it under the care of the Levites. It grew until it became our Bible, which means books or scriptures or writings. The Protestant-Teutonic nations appropriately called it the Word of God or God's Word, (in German Gottes Wort; in Scandinavian Gud's Ord).

The Bible Is The Divine Library.

Really the Bible is not only a book, it is a collection of 66 books, 39 books in the Old and 27 in the New Testament. Moses, the first divine writer, was also the first librarian of a library of five books, called the five books of Moses. It was larger than many think. Thus we see the idea of the library as well as that of the book is divine in its origin. To these five volumes by Moses, Joshua and Samuel added others. To the historical department was added the poetical by David and Solomon, and then followed the prophetical by Isaiah, Jeremiah and others. Under the new dispensation the Word of God continued to be written, collected and preserved in the Gospels, the Acts. the Epistles and Revelation. God used 40 different holy men during the long period of 1600 years to write this divine book or library. He alone gathered it, and He alone has preserved it. To His name alone be the praise!

"Music is the fairest gift of God."

"Music makes people more gentle and meek, more modest and understanding."

"I verily think, and am not ashamed to say, that, next to Divinity, no art is comparable to music."

"Where music is sharpened by art, one sees the great and perfect wisdom of God in his wonderful works."

"If our Lord God has shed forth such wondrous gifts on this earth, which is no better than a nook, what may we not expect in that eternal life in which we shall be perfected."

"A schoolmaster ought to know how to sing; without this qualification I would have nothing to do with him."

"Truth is mightier than eloquence; the spirit is stronger than wit, and faith is greater than learning."

"Would that that book (the Bible) alone were in all languages-before the eyes-in the ears-and in the heart of all."

"The better a man is, the greater is his desire to preserve knowledge; for he knows that of all plagues ignorance is the most pernicious."

"I will preach, I will talk in private, I will write, but I will force, I will coerce no man: for I will have the faith accepted, without constraint and without force."

"I will not resort to arms and bloodshed for the defence of the Gospel. It is by the preaching of the Word that the world has been conquered; by the Word the Church has been saved; by the Word, also it will be restored."

"I hold not at all with those who attach such great importance to one language and dispise all others, for I would fain that young men and others might be raised up who in foreign lands might be of service to Christ and speak with the people."

"The pen, not the fire, is to put down heretics. The hangmen are not doctors of theology. This is not the place for force. Not the sword, but the Word, fits for this battle. If the Word does not put down error, error would stand, though the world were drenched with blood."

"The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character; here are to be found its true interest, its chief strength, its real power."

"If all the heathen shall praise God, it must first be that he shall be their God. Shall he be their God? Then they must know him and believe in him, and put away all idolatry, since God can not be praised with idolatrous ips or with unbelieving hearts. Shall they believe? Then they must first hear his Word and by it receive the Holy Ghost, who cleanses and enlightens their hearts through faith. Are they to hear his Word? Then preachers must be sent who shall declare to them the Word of God."

"In the first place, a library should contain the Holy Scriptures in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German and other languages. The best and most ancient commentators in Greek, Hebrew and Latin.

"Secondly, such books as are useful in acquiring the languages, as the poets and orators, without considering whether they are heathen or Christian, Greek or Latin. For it is from such works that grammar must be learned."

"I hold that the government ought to compel subjects to send their children to school. If it can compel subjects who are equal to it to carry a spear and musket when the wars come, how much more can, and ought, it to compel the children to go to school; because a worse war is to be fought, that with the harmful devil, who goes around sucking at cities and kingdoms until he draws out all the good people and leaves a mere worthless shell behind, with which, the yolk being gone, he can fool as much as he chooses."

"We are asked, what is the use of learning Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, when we can read the Bible in German? But for the languages, we should never have received the Gospel. Languages are the scabboard in which the sword of the Spirit is found; they are the casket which holds the jewels; they are the vessels which contain the new wine; they are baskets in which