What's Wrong with the World?; A Candid Inquiry Into the Underlying Spirit and Its Trend That Made Possible the Great World War, a Revelation and a War

by G.H. Gerberding

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. ...that term. For the present we are done with the Germans. There are others. We are to find out what's wrong not with Germany alone but with the world. We have confessed Germany's sins. Have the Allied nations and their peoples no sins? Are they unwilling to be reminded of them? Do they need no repentance? Did not President Wilson call for a day of humiliation and prayer? Is there nothing for which the American people need humiliation? Is there no need of humiliation in the other allied nations? Have not all sinned? Are not all in need of sincere self-examination? Are they ready for sincere self-examination? Are they ready to be shown that they need to repent, return and live? We desire to help along this line. To do so we need to speak truly and frankly. There are some things that we Americans need to ponder for our intellectual and moral good. We are going to trust to the American spirit of fair play and to Christian charity. We have nothing but abhorrence for all avoidable and wanton atrocity. For whatever guilt she has in this line Germany must pay the penalty. She is paying now. While we lament and condemn all wanton atrocity in Belgium, does not the very name remind of the rubber plantations on the Congo and the unspeakable horrors committed and endured there? Our mind and heart, in the very beginning of the war, revolted against Germany's alliance with the unspeakable Turk. What of the oft-repeated truckling to the Turk on the part of other nations when the balance of power seemed to be endangered? The late atrocities in poor Armenia cry to Heaven for vengeance. And vengeance will surely fall. What of the Armenian atrocities of over thirty years ago and of others of later dates? Why, why would England not lift a hand when Christians...

28 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2012