Onward, Christian soldiers! Rip and tear and smite!
Let the gentle Jesus bless your dynamite.
Splinter skulls with shrapnel, fertilize the sod;
Folks who do not speak your tongue deserve the curse of God.
Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday September 19, 1916
Views on Preparedness and War from Robinson and Sandburg
From this month’s edition of The Masses:
From the Appeal to Reason of September 16, 1916:
WAR
SEVEN nations stood with their hands on the jaws of death.
It was the first week in August, Nineteen Hundred Fourteen.
I was listening, you were listening, the whole world was
listening,
And all of us heard a Voice murmuring:
“I am the way and the light,
He that believeth on me
Shall not perish
But shall have everlasting life.”
Seven nations listening heard the Voice and answered:
“O Hell!”
The jaws of death began clicking and they go on clicking.
“O Hell!”
-Carl Sandburg, in “Chicago Poems.”
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SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Sept 16, 1916
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IMAGE
Preparedness Logic, B Robinson, Masses, Sept 1916
http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/books/masses065/13
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Christians At War – Raymond Crooke
Lyrics by John F. Kendrick
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