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I'm all for using it in the coming war with Iraq.
Yet I'd be queasy about doing it in the Philippines circa 1905, which
> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of R.
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:44 PM
> To: Digital Bearer Settlement List; fork@spamassassin.taint.org
> From: Phil Duncan <PDuncan@AggregateStudio.com>
> Reply-To: Phil Duncan <PDuncan@AggregateStudio.com>
> The following prayer is from a story by Mark Twain, and was quoted by
> Laphan in the October issue of Harper's magazine. It occurs at the
> of an excellent article which I recommend to you.
> In the story, an old man enters a church where the congregation has
> listening to an heroic sermon about "the glory to be won in battle by
> patriots armed with the love of God." He usurps the pulpit and prays
> "O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreads with
> shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of
> patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the
> their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble
> a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending
> with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their
> children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in
> hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy
> winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the
> the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast
> hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make
> steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the
> of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is
> Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all
> are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts.
> Twain wrote the story, "The War Prayer," in 1905 during the American
> occupation of the Philippines, but the story wasn't printed until
> thirteen years after his death, because the editors thought it
> for publication at the time it was written.
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