KAISER’S BIRTHDAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15133, 30 January 1917, Page 5

KAISER’S BIRTHDAY.

A SERMON TO WILHELM’S LIKING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received January 30, 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, January 29. The Berlin correspondent of the United Press reports that at the Cathedral service on the Kaiser’s birthday during the leading of the Lord’s Prayer emphasis was laid on the sentence “Give us this day our daily bread.” Court Chaplain Bryander, in his sermon. said: “Before us is a decisive battle, requiring the greatest sacrifice. We neither willed nor wanted this war. The .Kaiser extended the hand of peace, but with unprecedented frivolity and in-, suits our enemies slapped his hand. To such enemies there is only one voice, the crash of cannon. God cannot permit (Jermans to go down.” The service was attended by Royalty, the highest nobles, officials, and diplomats.