127. God's people will come forth from this war strengthened and crowned with victory, because they stand on the side of God; but all God's adversaries will find out that God will not be mocked, and that He rules the history of the nations according to His will.--"War Devotions," by PASTOR J. RUMP, quoted in H.A.H., p. 134. 128. A good Providence watches over the fate of the German people, which is destined to the highest things on this earth.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 67. 129. Brethren and sisters! in a moment we ... have become the heirs of Israel, the people of the Old Testament covenant. We shall be the bearers of God's promises.--"War Devotions," by PASTOR J. RUMP, quoted in H.A.H., p. 116. 130. As was Israel among the heathen, so is Germany among the modern nations--the pious heart of Europe.--"My German Fatherland," by PASTOR TOLZIEN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 136. 131. We hope that a great mission will be allotted to us Germans ... and this German mission is: to look after the world (_zu sorgen fuer die Welt_). Is it arrogance to write such a phrase? Is it vanity in the disguise of a moral idea? No, no, and again no.--PASTOR G. TRAUB, D.K.U.S., p. 23. 132. Friedrich Nietzsche was but the last of the singers and seers who, coming down from the height of heaven, brought to us the tidings that there should be born from us the Son of God, whom in his language he called the Superman.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 53. 133. Verily the Bible is our book.... It was given and assigned to us, and we read in it the original text of our destiny, which proclaims to mankind salvation or disaster--according as _we_ will it!--"War Devotions," by PASTOR J. RUMP, quoted in H.A.H., p. 134. 134. We want to become a world-people. Let us remind ourselves that the belief in our mission as a world-people has arisen from our originally purely spiritual impulse to absorb the world into ourselves.--PROF. F. MEINECKE, D.D.E., p. 37. 135. Germany is the centre of God's plans for the world.--"On the German God," by PASTOR W. LEHMANN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 78. _See also Nos. 75, 77, 239._ "=Other Peoples.=" (AFTER JULY, 1914.) 136. We had greatly over-valued all other nations, even the French. The French are a people on the down grade.--THE KAISER, to HERR A. FENDRICH, quoted in H.A.H., p. 55. 137. All the deep things: courage, patriotism, faithfulness, moral purity, conscience, the sense of duty, activity on a moral basis, inward riches, intellect, industry, and so forth [!]--no other nation possesses all these things in such high perfection as we do.--"On the German God," by PASTOR W. LEHMANN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 76.