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THE TEMPTER
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lute our flag, symbol of such power and glory as never was since history began!

So was Germany led to an exceeding high mountain. Germany listened to the tempter and chose the kingdoms of the world. And Germany in 1921 . . .

Ah, but the tempter never lets you read to the end of the chapter; never shows you the whole picture. Behind these gorgeous visions floating in rosy mist lurk death . . . poverty . . . starvation . . . despair . . . a civilization become offal and ashes. He does not show you these; he knows that he is at war with the purposes of eternity.

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