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Had Doctor Bang set forth as his own views, as a neutral, the amazing utterances which make up the bulk of his compilation, no one here or abroad would have believed that he described a true condition. But he was smarter than that. He was mainly content to repeat literal translations of indubitable prayers, poems, sermons, addresses -- written and spoken statements of contemporary German clergymen, German professors and German statesmen.
In further support of the point which I have been striving to make I mean to take the liberty here of adding a few more extracts from the first American edition of _Hurrah and Hallelujah_, in each instance giving credit to the original German author of the same.