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Topic: Quimby Wisdom Section: 40 - Chapter 17, Part 01 - The Poor Soldier Table of Contents to this Topic |
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Part IV Thoughts The poor soldier . . . Love . . . The life of woman . . . Chapter 17 The Poor Soldier A crown of glory awaits The poor soldier who fights for the leaders sinks under the burden bound upon him. To keep up his courage, the officers hold up the idea he is fighting for a great and good cause. And a crown of glory in heaven awaits those who die upon the battlefield. This is all the happiness the privates get. So they fight to keep society from ruin while their reward is the satisfaction of fighting the devil and supporting the officers. Reverse the tables, making the priest the soldier, tax him to pay the former soldier for his instructions. Then it would be shown how well their principle of action, which they preach to others, applies to themselves. Jesus saw through all this hypocrisy: that the God of the heathen was not the God of peace, but of war, and this same God is worshipped now as then. He is the most con- venient God I know of. He listens to the North and the South and leads their men on to battle and from the prayers of his followers is as much interested in the vic- tory as the winning party. All this sort of cant is kept up with a certain solemnity of form as though there were real truth in it. But the time will come when all this must give way to a higher worship. |
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