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The War Prayer

Mark Twain

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	The War Prayer (story) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"The War Prayer," a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.
		The structure of the work is simple, but effective: United States patriots support the Spanish American War and in a church service call upon their God to grant them victory and protect their troops.
		He explains to them that he is there to speak aloud the second part of their prayer for victory, the part which they have implicitly wished for but have not spoken aloud themselves: the prayer for the suffering and destruction of their enemies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_War_Prayer_(story) (382 words)

	General Patton's Prayer at Bastogne
		Even in "War As I Knew It" by General Patton, the footnote on the Prayer by Colonel Paul D. Harkins, Patton's Deputy Chief of Staff, while containing the elements of a funny story about the General and his Chaplain, is not the true account of the prayer Incident or its sequence.
		He read the prayer copy, returned it to me with a very casual directive, "Have 250,000 copies printed and see to it that every man in the Third Army gets one." The size of the order amazed me; this was certainly doing something about the weather in a big way.
		Prayer to most of them is a formal, ritualized affair, involving special posture and a liturgical setting.
	www.pattonhq.com /prayer.html (2480 words)

	Mark Twain, The War Prayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
		With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths.
		The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation
	www.libertystory.net /LSDOCTWAINWARPRAYER.htm (794 words)

	Mark Twain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Missouri, although a slave state and considered by many to be part of the South, declined to join the Confederacy and remained loyal to the Union.
		When the war began, Clemens and his friends formed a Confederate militia (an experience he depicted in his 1885 short story, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed"), but he saw no military action and the militia disbanded after two weeks.
		It was submitted to Harper's Bazaar for publication, but on March 22, 1905, the magazine rejected the story as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine." Eight days later Twain wrote to his friend Dan Beard, to whom he had read the story, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Twain (2587 words)

	Mark Twain and John Dos Passos On War
		In The War Prayer, Twain places the reader in a church where a clerical figure is blessing the troops as they go off to do battle.
		Although not directly stated, Twain implies a namelessness to the soldiers in The War Prayer by not mentioning details of their lives, pointing out individual characteristics or bringing any of the characters to the story.
		In The War Prayer, Twain uses the messenger figure as a device to shock the masses, and they display ignorance of his purpose, and carry on the tradition of unquestioning loyalty to the church and their country.
	www.poetsforum.com /papers/232_1.html (1067 words)

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		LESSONS: THE WAR PRAYER by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) Materials: A copy of the story for each student and a picture of Clemens LESSONS 1 Tell the students that we will talking about Samuel Clemens, who wrote as Mark Twain, a famous American writer.
		After talking about his life, tell them that as a response to the tragedy in NYC, we are going to read "The War Prayer." Because the story is about war, and I have a fair number of students from war-torn countries, I ask the students to tell me one word about war and its consequences.
		The WAR PRAYER BY SAMUEL CLEMENS (1905) quoted from Albert Bigelow Paine, ed., "Europe and Elsewhere" It was a time of great and exalting excitement.
	home.cogeco.ca /~rayser3/warprayer.txt (1058 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| 'The War Prayer', by Mark Twain \|
		The War Prayer' remains one of the world's great pro-peace pieces of literature.
		We fought a number of showy battles, and when the war was over we had lost two hundred sixty-eight men out of our two hundred and fifty thousand, in killed and wounded in the field, and just fourteen times as many by the gallantry of the army doctors in the hospitals and camps.
		For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of-except he pause and think.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /mark_twain_war_prayer.html (1773 words)

	"The War Prayer"
		For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of -- except he pause and think.
		the whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words.
		The story is in response to a particular war, namely the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902, which Twain opposed.
	www.midwinter.com /lurk/making/warprayer.html (790 words)

	The War Prayer - Mark Twain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the prayer closes, an "aged stranger" enters the church and walks up the aisle to the front of the church where the minister is standing.
		He has heard the prayer of His servant, your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I His messenger shall have explained to you its import -- that is to say its full import.
		Because it was not published until 1923, the remainder of "The War Prayer" is still covered by copyright and can not be reprinted without permission from the original publisher.
	www.boondocksnet.com /ai/twain/war_prayer.html (805 words)

	Extras ~ The War Prayer (Mark Twain) ~ About the Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was during this period, in 1904–5, that Twain wrote “The War Prayer.” According to Twain scholar Jim Zwick, the story was rejected by Harper’s Bazaar as “not quite suited to a woman’s magazine.” Twain then wrote a friend, “I don’t think the prayer will be published in my time.
		Whether due to suppression of truth or in part to Twain’s own reluctance to seem too radical, the story was in fact published only after his death.
		The story drew new attention during the Vietnam War, with that conflict’s echoes of the earlier Philippine involvement.
	www.aaronshep.com /extras/WarPrayer_note.html (253 words)

	The War Prayer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War Prayer (story), a short story by Mark Twain
		The War Prayer (Babylon 5), an episode in the television series Babylon 5
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_War_Prayer (104 words)

	Lisa's Liturgies
		Prayer Leaders should allow for intercessions from the congregation using the words “and your prayers...” or similar words.
		Note: I wasn’t sure whether to include Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" or not, because there is a political aspect to the story.
		If you do use it you might introduce it with these or similar words.LF [About the Story:] Twain apparently dictated ["The War Prayer] around 1904-05; it was rejected by his publisher, and was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts.
	www.lclark.edu /~frenz/prayervigil2006.htm (1175 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Mark Twain
		A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, where the time the action takes place in predates the time of the first publication -- distinguish and contrast the genre of alternate history.
		A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist.
		The Private History of a Campaign that Failed, by Mark Twain is a shory story about that depicts the evils of the Civil War and shows the damages it has on human life.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mark-Twain (6501 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: The somber task of honoring the fallen
		Soldiers form an honor guard and say a prayer as, almost nightly, coffins are loaded for the trip home.
		The families would be proud to see their sons and daughters saluted like that," says Tami Silicio, a contract employee from the Seattle area who works the night shift at the cargo terminal.
		Since the 1991 Gulf War, photographs of coffins as they return to the United States have been tightly restricted.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001906489_kuwait18m.html (849 words)

	The War Prayer
		"He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import — that is to say, its full import.
		For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of — excpet he pause and think.
		If you pray for the blessing of rain on your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse on some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
	www.ielusc.br /~borges/base2003/mod_doc.php?id=0185 (811 words)

	Adventus: The War Prayer
		The real essence of Twain's famous "War Prayer" is not that war is horrible, or that we should be careful what we ask for, we might get it.
		The Iraq Analysis Group, which campaigned against the war, said the US authorities only admitted the use of the weapons after the evidence from reporters had become irrefutable.
		It is understandable why it is "internationally reviled" as a weapon of war.
	rmadisonj.blogspot.com /2005/06/war-prayer.html (428 words)

	Teacher information Sheet #2: Readers Theatre Script — The War Prayer
		Twain wrote the story in 1904-5, but after trying just once to publish it, he set it aside.
		Beside them were their proud and happy dear ones, as well as envious neighbours with no sons or brothers of their own to send forth to the field of honour.
		The minister’s own eyes were shut in prayer, and he went on unaware of the stranger.
	www.sasked.gov.sk.ca /docs/midlsoc/gr7/74info2.html (861 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› The War Prayer (Harper Colophon Books) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He tells the patriotic crowd that their prayers for victory are double-edged-by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy...
		The story takes place in a time of war, when "the holy fire of patriotism" burns in every heart.
		The back cover of the book notes that "The War Prayer" was written during the Philippine-American war in the first decade of the twentieth century, was rejected for publication in 1905, and remained unpublished until 1923.
	www.bublos.net /isbn/0060911131.html (1222 words)

	The Mr Bungle Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		David Woodard was born in 1969 and educated at Columbia, New School for Social Research and UC Santa Barbara.
		Woodard composed a military fanfare for brass and percussion setting of Mark Twain's posthumous story "The War Prayer," based on his own text revision.
		The work was recorded by attorney Melvin Belli, Sr., as orator, John Cage Ensemble percussionist William Winant and the San Francisco Symphony brass choir (Featuring Trey Spruance on trumpet), at Old First Church — the oldest Protestant congregation West of the Mississippi on March 12, 1996.
	geocities.com /spruancegallery/projects/davidwoodard/davidwoodard.html (109 words)

	The War Prayer by Mark Twain
		The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation "God the all-terrible!
		"He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd and grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import – that is to say, its full import.
		For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of – except he pause and think.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/twain1.html (825 words)

	The War Prayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mark Twain submitted this piece to Harper's Bazaar during the Philippine War at the turn of the last century.
		"He has heard the prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import - that is to say, its full import.
		For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of - except he pause and think.
	englishatheist.org /indexp.shtml (736 words)

	The War Prayer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An explicit authorization of acts of war by Congress is a declaration of war as required by the Constitution.
		Congress then had the opportunity to end the war and was so freaked-so afraid of the power they had so long gladly given up that they -- after denying the President authorization for the Kosovo war-gave the President the funds to carry out the same war they voted him to stop.
		As for prayer, it is sufficient to pray only that God's will be done in the battles ahead, be they diplomatic or military, and then do your best as a soldier or leader, trusting Him to deliver.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/843766/posts (7583 words)

	The War Prayer \| AfterDowningStreet.org
		The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation – "God the all-terrible!
		The answer to true christianity is in the war prayer.
		One NEVER wages any wars based on lies, or with no morals or forsight, because the result is millions of senseless deaths.
	www.afterdowningstreet.org /?q=node/2379 (1430 words)

	The War Prayer [Free Republic]
		Mark Twain's involvement with the anti-imperialist movement was one of the longest and most significant political affiliations of his life, and it was widely recognized during his lifetime, inspiring editorials and political cartoons from California to London, Bermuda to Canada, and probably further afield.
		The 4th of July weekend is probably not the correct time for this sort of ideas, but in the midst of honoring the heroes of a just and honorable event, I think it is important to remember the craven and cowardly despots who have replaced Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams in the positions of leadership.
		In the period around World War II, there was no embarrassment on the left about engaging in traditional patriotic activities -- flag waving, Fourth of July celebrations -- but these symbols of patriotism seem to have disappeared from the left.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a395e890348cb.htm (4789 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One day during the war, Albert Cevallos, at the time a contractor with the United States Agency for International Development, was standing with a group of civil-affairs officers at the Iraq-Kuwait border.
		During the war, Shouket’s mother had written a Koranic verse in chalk on the living-room wall; it was a prayer for safety that the family recited together.
		She had wept watching the war on TV, urging the 3rd Infantry Division on to Baghdad; the bombs exploding outside had given her heart.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?031124fa_fact1 (16837 words)

	eclecticism: The War Prayer
		We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the source of all Love.
		National Day of Prayer: So apparently today was the National Day of Prayer.
		A prayer for America: A Prayer for America, by US Rep Dennis Kucinich.
	www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2005/04/the_war_prayer.html (211 words)

	Mark Twain - "The War Prayer" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The story tells how a regiment on its way to the front assembles at a church and prays for victory.
		When the prayer is concluded a white-robed stranger enters to say he has been sent from "On High" with a message that the petition will be answered if the men care to repeat it after understanding its full import.
		Their prayer, he tells them, asks for more than they seem to realize.
	www.twainquotes.com /19141207.html (240 words)

	The Presidential Prayer Team:
		If you are seeking a fresh, new way to motivate and encourage your prayer life, we encourage you to visit the PPT Prayer Experience.
		We are called to honor our own words of reverent prayer with resolution in the deeds we must perform to preserve peace and the hope of freedom.
		Cassy Cady-Smith says of Christopher, “He brings a refreshing and Spirit-filled approach to his work and seeks to align those he trains with God’s agenda for passionate prayer rooted in the Word.” Cassy and Christopher will be offering many opportunities for current Ambassadors to further grow in their abilities in the futures.
	www.presidentialprayerteam.org /site/PageServer?pagename=ppt_homepage&... (2784 words)

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