We Fear Only God, Says The Kaiser.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 10, 1913:
Prussia Was Conquered When She Lost Faith and Won When She Regained It, He Asserts.
UNIVERSITY AUDIENCE CHEERS
Pounding the Desk, the Emperor Exhorts Germany to Study History and Remember God's Leadership.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Feb. 9.— Punctuating his remarks by pounding on a desk with his right fist, Emperor William, speaking at a memorial service at the Berlin University, to-day declare "that the Prussians were a conquered folk in 1806 because they had lost faith in God and that they won back freedom seven years later because they had regained that faith.
    The audience interrupted continually with applause as the Emperor asserted that history showed that God had been and was with the German people. There was a stormy demonstration when the monarch closed by repeating Bismarck's words:
    "We Germans fear God and nothing else in the world."
    The Emperor said that the present generation, "which inclines to believe only what one can see or touch with one's hands, has less aptitude for transcendental things and is placing obstacles in the way of religion, needs to be shown how it can return to the faith of its fathers."
    Then he cited Prussia's condition before the war of liberation and said it was God's judgment. Then came the rebirth of the people in faith and a mighty struggle for freedom which was unexampled.
    "And this, too," went on the Kaiser, "was not man's work, but God's work."
    He believed that Germany, armed with this faith, would go its straight way, and could then repeat confidently Bismarck's proud declaration.
    After the address the audience arose and sang the national hymn to the clashing of the sabres of a corps of students.