THE NEXT STEP CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9780267345229 Géneros: JPA Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Next StepAn Address Delivered at the Springtime Conference Los Gatos California April 13 1915It is the fashion nowadays to pray for Europe With the earnest new belief that war is wrong we rise and beseech God to bring reason to a world gone mad We pray for our brothers at arms as for sinners who are lost and must be saved We recognize the present conflict as the great crime of the ages and we feel that those who today support it can be looked upon only as criminals before God We cry upon them to cease in Gods nameAnd who are we thus fervently to counsel with our Maker We are those who yesterday made boast of ancestors because one time they won a war We are they whose hearts beat high to read the passionate defiance of the Revolution orators We have boasted of our brave dead calling them heroes we have sung of them and told their stories to our children glorious narratives of loyalty and sacrifice we have been proud to call our own But yesterday it was we stood with bared heads to join in the strains of the Star Spangled Banner and in our hearts there was some thing oi a real thrill of patriotism For a moment we too could be capable of great sacrifice for our country and we felt uplifted by the experience we felt that we had touched something greater and finer than the selfishness of our everyday livesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve