The War Lord’s Prayer

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 277, 23 November 1935, Page 15

The War Lord’s Prayer

Tho “Literary Digest” has resurrected Mark Twain’s - long-forgotten “War Lord’s Prayer,” written without irreverence, but with considerable wonderment toward mankind. Ho said:— “I have told the whole truth in that prayer, and only dead men can tell the truth in the world (it was not to have been published until after his death): “0 Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with tho pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane

of lire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended through the wasteu of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Theo for the refuge of the grave and denied it—for our sabes, who adore Thee, Lord, blast their

hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feetl”