Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-03-15
Onward, Christian
Soldiers, Marching
AS to War.

(From Manufacturer Rccord.)
Savagery, in comparison with
which the tomahawk and the poison
ed arrow of the savages of the old
were sanity, has raised its head and
strikes it's awful fangs deep into the
heart of civilization.
Women, pure and holy, sweet as
the angels of God, are ravished by
bestial b:'utes whose teachings for
years have been to take whaever
you want wherever and whenever you
haze the power, of lands, of money,
and OF all forms of material things,
and all the holier and more price
less things of life.
Innocent 'babies, whose lisping
tongues enclant and whose wonder
ing eyes light the pathway to Heav-
ell, are killed as though they were
ravenous beasts, and their sufferings
iibed at by the inhuman monsters
turned loose, filed with all the vile
ness of their hell-begotten lives.
Fields are made desolate, churches
and cathedrals are blotted out, wells
are poisoned, whole villages are
swept as by the bosom Of destruction,
and awful devastation unequaled in
all the long years of mans existence
on earth reigns wherever Germany's
accursed army moves. Millions of
men, the flower of the worlds civili-
zation, have with their bodies fertiliz-
ed thousand battlefelds, and mill
lions of orphaned children and wild
ows, fathers and mothers and sweet
hearts, bereft of loved ones dearer
than life itself, cry to Heaven from
hearts crushed by earth's most fear
full anguish, and still the awful reign
of ruin and death goes on.
And why all this suffering?
Why these murdered women, men,
and children?
Why these broken hearts?
Why the bones of babies and their
through the forests and over the
snow and ice as they fled from burn
ing homes to escape the ravisher's
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Why?
Because Germany through the
years has been planning it's hell-de-
viscd scheme of conquest, it's plan
for world dominion, based on def
mite, predetermined campaign of
worldwide intrigue and lying and
thieving and murder and rape that
Kaiser Wilhelm, the syphilitic child
of syphilitic parentage, and his rot
Iten-hearted, rotten-souled military
CLIQUE might build a world empire for
their ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and the perpet-
ual power of themselves and their
descendants.
This is the inescapable fact. This
is the mad-dog that is at large. This
is the roaring lion seeking to dcvour
your wife and other loved ones and
your country, and you must either
fight or run, and if you run you are
sure to be destroyed.
Fight then we must, and as sure
as God is in Heaven, as sure as right
is better than might, rs sure as good
is superior to evil, as sure as Heaven
is better than hell, we shall win,
though the way may be long and
bloody.
Let US then glory in the contest.
Let us pit our right and truth against
Germany's Satan devised might. Let
us enter upon the crusade with the
crusadre's spirit of old and thank God
that we fight under His banner and
in His cause.
Then, Onward, Christian Soldiers"
for the very angels of Heaven might
envy you this supreme opportunity to
sacrifice that you may save civiliZa-
! tion from barbarism, christianity
from atheism, women and children
from british beasts, and hear the
plaudit of the Master, We'll done,
good and faithful servant, enter thou
into the joy Of the Lord"