IHE title of this talk in the series "Christian Issues in Time of War" is "At War, with God."
It is still a real question with a great many people whether the Christian man can engage in any form of warfare without thereby ceasing to be a true Christian.
It is to those who are in dubiety about that question that I wish to speak, but also to those who have no such problems of conscience but who are not doing all they could to bring this war to a finish in which liberty, justice and charity shall be vindicated, and their maintenance for the future secured.
One of the commonplaces of our war-time thought is that the distinction between combatants and non-combatants has been obliterate ed, but it is a commonplace of which we do not keep before us all the implications. We are all in it, we say. Yes, but how? Are we in it with our whole Christian heart and its energy, or do we have to put away in cold storage as it were, for the duration, that supremely valuable asset, our Christian virtue? We all know something of the slightly contemptuous fun poked at the "peace-time soldier" Are Christian folk no better than peace-time soldiers, waiting for the clouds to roll by before they can show the good stuff they are made of?
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