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Show FORMER KAISER HAS MANIA FOR RELIGION AMSTERDAM, May 12 Former Emperor William's devotion to religion has progressed to the point of mania admiral von Tlrplts, former minlStel of the Germnn navy, is reported to have told a friend recently The German ex-kaiser is described 'as spending the greater Part of each !dav in reading the scriptures, com-mentarle, com-mentarle, sermons, and other religious reli-gious books and in prayer. His phsi-ical phsi-ical health ap. enrs to be good, but the I members of Doom regard his mental state ilth some anxiety. It Is believed be-lieved that his interest in European affair- had greatly diminished, even politics finding him somewhat unlnter-'ested unlnter-'ested HI mind appears to live more In the past than In the present, and he Is disposed, whenever ho does converse con-verse on politics and someone speaks of the Injustice of the world, to allude hvlth 8 certain melancholy and indifference indif-ference to what he terms the false accusation Of having "willed the war." During Ids reign as emperor of the German empire, William was primate of the Lutheran State church of Prus-'sla, Prus-'sla, and as such he always studied theology nnd cultivated oxpevtncss In defense' of Lutheran doctrines and their application. His mind was often i divided, in those days, between ihe study of military and religious questions, ques-tions, hut now he is said to be enthralled en-thralled in religious questions alone to the exclusions or all problems of rtate-, 'craft HlS mental outlook seems to' jhave narrowed and his rare visitor -find his mind shut In and closed to present German affairs and the rela-jtion rela-jtion I'dw.i-n '.erniany and the rest, I of tho European countries. |