WAR AS CRUSADE
BATTLE FOR MORAL HERITAGE. When Urban 11. proclaimed the First Crusade, his words are said to have evoked the general shout. "Deus le volt"—"God wills it.” We have travelled far. writes the Bishop of Durham, since the simple and half-barbar-ous people of medieval Christendom discerned a divine vocation in the Pope’s summons to the Holy War for the rescue of Palestine from the infidel, but surely we do not deceive ourselves when, confronted by a worse menace than I hat of Mohammed, we also discern a divine vocation in the summons to battle, not for an empty tomb in a distant land, but for the moral heritage of civilised Christendom. On that crusade for justice, liberty, and the reign of law in the intercourse of nations, we may dare to invoke the blessing ol the Almighty. Whose service is perfect freedom, and Whose will is man’s duty. “Clouds and darkness are round about Him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His seat.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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166WAR AS CRUSADE Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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