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From fork-admin@xent.com Tue Sep 17 11:30:07 2002
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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Subject: <nettime> The War Prayer
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Status: RO
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:57:27 -0700
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To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
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From: Phil Duncan <PDuncan@AggregateStudio.com>
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Subject: <nettime> The War Prayer
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Reply-To: Phil Duncan <PDuncan@AggregateStudio.com>
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The following prayer is from a story by Mark Twain, and was quoted by Lewis
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Laphan in the October issue of Harper's magazine. It occurs at the very end
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of an excellent article which I recommend to you.
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In the story, an old man enters a church where the congregation has been
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listening to an heroic sermon about "the glory to be won in battle by young
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patriots armed with the love of God." He usurps the pulpit and prays the
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following:
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"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreads with our
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shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their
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patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of
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their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with
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a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows
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with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little
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children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and
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hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames in summer and the icy winds of
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winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of
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the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their
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hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their
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steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood
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of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the
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Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that
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are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen."
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Twain wrote the story, "The War Prayer," in 1905 during the American
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occupation of the Philippines, but the story wasn't printed until 1923,
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thirteen years after his death, because the editors thought it "unsuitable"
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for publication at the time it was written.
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
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experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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