THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND THE WAR.
Sir, —The actual experience of war has changed our point of view in regard to questions untold. Things that seemed out of place, -unreal, and uncharitable before now strike -us as apposite and straight to the point. I have not once heard during the past year the old second verso of tho National Anthem. Yet in its quaint way does it not precisely express what we all long for and hope for? O Lord, our God, arise— Scatter his enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix— God save us all. What could be hotter? There is not a thought of uncharity in it. One could sing it with all our heart and yet say,"My heart's desire and prayer to God for Germany is that they might be saved." Religious expression to be lofty need hot be unforceful. ' To turn from the full version of the Anthem to the first and third verses alone at such a time as this is to turn from wine to water.—l am, etc., . A.B.C.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 5
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186THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AND THE WAR. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2525, 28 July 1915, Page 5
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