Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Trouble passages in the SOM Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 89 08:21:07 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of No Money, Albuquerque, New Mexico Lines: 21 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I'd like to point out that the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers" has nothing to do, other than allegory, with actual battle. Here's the first verse: Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war With the cross of Jesus, going on before. Christ the royal master, leads against the foe; Forward into battle, see his banners glow! They are marching AS to war. That is to set the sense of the hymn. The point here, and I think this classic hymn makes it very well, is that the fight for Christ must be as diligent and permanent and sacrificing as any soldier fighting in battle. -- Michael I. Bushnell \ This above all; to thine own self be true LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE \ And it must follow, as the night the day, mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu /\ Thou canst not be false to any man. Telephone: +1 505 292 0001 / \ Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!