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THE WAR CRY/XXXXXXX XX, 2012
First, we must have more skill. How these recent bat-
tles have revealed the high state of perfection to which
the science of war has been raised!
1.
We must have more skill.
War is a science, and by
dint of long and careful study it has been almost
raised to perfection. An unskilled enemy with primi-
tive weapons, is no match for modern soldiers with
their rifles and rockets and shells and all the latest
inventions in weapons of slaughter. And although in
bravery and self�sacrifice they were equal to any men
who ever fought, they are not able to come within
thirty yards of a better trained and equipped force.
Now, my comrades, we must have more skill. Oh,
what folly to talk against new measures. Let us have
new and more ingenious inventions of every kind.
Soldiers, rack your brains. Not to keep those with or
rather for who we fight off us but how to bring them
near. How to get at them. To bring them down to the
Savior's feet, conquered by love and won for the King.
2.
We must have more system.
Plenty of mistakes and
blunders there doubtless will be in any campaign; mis-
takes with ships and boats and ammunition and
weapons and food--and I know not what; mistakes in
communication and everything else. Still it must be a
wonderful display of systems to be able to equip and
send forth those thousands of men great distances
and a still more wonderful thing it must be to supply
them with food and water, and all the necessities of
war when they are there. One word explains the whole
business, and that word is SYSTEM.
My comrades, we must have more of this science. It
means finding out how to do things in the best way,
and then keeping on doing them. Let us all join hands
at this. It means that somebody gives the order how
things are to be done, and then everybody concerned
goes quietly to work to obey. Soldiers, mark that! Do
you want to see the war waged with great vigor and
rushed forward to mightier results? Bear this in mind;
every one to his post, and let every one do his duty
when he is there.
3.
We must learn better to sacrifice and endure.
There
have been some deserters, perhaps; some who fled at the
sight of the enemy, or who fell out of the march in the
heat of the sun when not compelled to do so; or there
may have been some one who has gone over to the foe.
But how rare to hear of such cowardice or treachery.
These men have held on to their business. They have
been true to their oath, perilous and difficult business
as it has been. How officers, wounded at the com-
mencement of battle fought on to the end, refusing to
leave their comrades while they could strike a blow; and
how men courted death in their desperate effort to
secure victory.
My comrades, such heroic sacrificing efforts in such
a cause cover me with shame when I think of the cold,
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