The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-10-08
Colonel Roosevelt Wants Every
Soldier to Garry a Bible
So Do We
So Do We
1t Might Be Special Bible With Certain Texts Printed in
Large Letters Other Texts a Little Smaller.

The Bible Society raising money to give every soldier
q Bible bound in khaki"
Bibles and other books have been bound in many ma
teal in wood gold CLOTH shark skim elephant hide skins
Of poisonous snakes and skin from human bodies.
A Bible bound in khaki would have a meaning as it
joueyed toward the trenches filled with texts that praise
righteous and encourage shifting"
Back from would come stories that we have all
read the soldier returning with bullets in his Bibethat
would have been buried in his heart he had not carried
over his the khaki Bible that his mother the Bible
Society gave him.
Mr. Roosevelt says that he is in favor of the Bible for
the soldiers. Anybody could have guessed it. Anybody
could guess also, perhaps his favorite text
"sIay utterly and you n.y. little
drsn and women; but OF upon whom is
the mark; begin Then they besar
the ancient which efore the house."
Of this text Western itinerant preacher in recent
confession of MURDER said had mpeed him to the killing
of eight people, including mother father and children But
in the text went wrong? It could not go wrong with
American soldiers marching against Prussia. For there
slay utterly is the only thing that will do any good and
would be interpreted R. would interpret it. "slay
utterly EXCEPTING women, children, and old men,
The highest authority for righteous punishment at war
is found in the text.
''Think not that to send peace on earth; T
not to send peace but sword St. Matthew 1924
It has been suggested that Colonel Roosevelt would
suggest that the Sermon the Mount and such words as
BLESSED the meek etc. should be erased from the
khaki Bible But the wise Colonel would nothing of the
kind He would put big mark at the page and print the
page in red so that no soldier might miss it.
For everybody knows how beautifully the "sermon on
the Mount" be made by intelligent soldier to apply
to the naughty and unrepentant Prussians
Blessed the meek fits the Ka;- as his hordes will
discover They will find that meeness pays and brutality
does not pay But the Prussans will be meek in the end
and will NOT "inherit the earth"
in sniri he Koisa
stand this when he takes off his uniform and the helmet
and the assortment of decorations that invented for him
SELF and goes to work like honest German citizen wash
ing dishes in military fortress and realizing that his is
''the kingdom of heaven but other kingdom
Blessed the peacemakers is in the Prussian mind
at this moment.
Apart from special texts indorsng war and advising
the Germans to stop their fooishness the Bible will have
the greatest advantage for every thoughtful soldier It is
the best of reading.
The most beautiful literature is to be found in Isaiah.
"For We shall go out with joy and be led forth with
you into singing and all the trees Of the field shall clap
their hands" Isaiah 5512.
That how it will be when victorious army sweeps
on toward Berlin
The impressive writing in all the world is in the
book Of Job; let every soldier read it.
And the American soldiers with their allies as thew
march conquered land will to the Germans the ex
ample Of kindness and decency that they need inspired by
these words that the Germans forgot in Belgium
"whosO shall offend Of these o.
n we're hat milestone wer.
about his and that
sea."-st Matthew, is: