Chapter 6 - Discipline, Provisioning And Flexibility
(A) Discipline
In these well known words of Paul, we are introduced to the most important matter of discipline. What is discipline? It could be described as the steadying effect, the girding power, of purposefulness, as opposed to looseness and carelessness and slackness. It is what the Apostle Peter calls “girding up the loins of your mind” (1 Pet. 1:13). Now, in that great South East Asia Campaign to which we have been referring, discipline had, naturally, a very large place. We will consider it in its connection with five different, though related, things.
(1) As To Behaviour
In the first place,
discipline is related to behaviour. I am not quoting from
the volume, but there is a great deal said about this
matter of behaviour. It is so easy to accept the subtle
idea that, when you are on a war footing (especially
under conditions such as obtained in that campaign),
discipline does not matter so much: you can throw off the
restraints of the parade ground and need not bother about
the strict rules and regulations of training; you are
free from all that and can just plunge straight into the
battle. But the writer of this book makes much of the
importance of bringing into the battle all those rules of
training and discipline and behaviour. And you will at
once see that our behaviour as the Lord’s people is
a most vital factor in the campaign. The New Testament,
as we know, has a great deal to say about Christian
behaviour, and it is not without very real purpose that
the Lord makes such large mention of it in His inspired
volume. He knows the importance of our conduct, our
demeanour—of how we behave. With Him it is a vital
part of the battle. It matters; it makes a great deal of
difference. We are not to be slack, loose, careless, in
our way and manner of life. The enemy makes great gain
out of that sort of thing; it puts a most effective
weapon into his hand against the Lord’s interests,
against the whole object to which we are called.
You and I, as Christians, have got to watch our
behaviour: not only before the world, but—as we
shall emphasize again presently—even in secret. It
matters whether we are disciplined in the matter of
behaviour. The great point that this book makes of
behaviour is that discipline should have become second
nature: it should not merely be something put on for the
occasion, when it is expected and when eyes are on us,
when we are more or less on parade before the officers.
We should not need to be told or pulled up. Disciplined
behaviour should become second nature; it should just be us—we
are that. Our behaviour should betoken what we
are.
A simple point is made by the Supreme Command in that
connection. Soldiers, when they are on the parade ground
or in training, are, of course, very careful about their
saluting of officers; it is a part of their discipline.
But it was noticed that, when they were all mixed up in
battle conditions, officers and men together under actual
war conditions, they became very slack, very careless and
loose, in this seemingly small matter. And the Supreme
Command said: This is something that shows whether men
are really trained men or not; it gives them away. If
they were really disciplined men, the conditions under
which they live would make no difference at all: they
would carry out the rules and regulations of their
training under all circumstances, for it would have
become second nature. They would salute an officer just
as much in those active service conditions, even in
jungle warfare, as they would on the parade ground or in
training.
This illustration should impress upon us the importance
of realizing that discipline is not just something
artificial, something that we assume; it is not just the
behaviour that we put on when we are being watched and
when it is expected of us. It is how we behave when we
are caught off our guard that reveals what we are. While
that may sound very simple and elementary, it is a very
important thing in the Christian life. The discipline of
the Holy Spirit in our lives will show itself under all
conditions: we act so, because we are
that—that is what we are. When we are in
public, where we know that it matters what people think
of us, we can put on mannerisms, assume an artificial
voice, pose, effect. But when we are with a few, for whom
we have not a great deal of respect, we can put off the
guise and really show our true nature. This is fatal to
reality!
(2) As To Care For Health
Then there was the
matter of discipline in regard to health. It was of the
utmost importance that every care and precaution related
to health should be most carefully, most meticulously
observed. But terrible havoc was wrought in that campaign
by disease; many thousands of men were lost to the
fighting forces through carelessness in the matter of
health.
How much more urgent, then, is care of health in the
spiritual realm! It is very important that you and I
should be disciplined in the matter of spiritual health.
In Latin, the word for ‘health’ is cognate with
our word ‘salvation’; and salvation connotes
‘preservation’, ‘deliverance’.
Discipline in spiritual health means to be alive to the
perils to spiritual life, the threatening inroads to the
spiritual condition. Very much could be said on the
matter of spiritual maladies, spiritual diseases,
spiritual infirmities. Many of them overcome us because
we are not disciplined, we are not careful, we are not
watchful; we are not alive to things that can undermine
our spiritual health. It is of great importance for the
battle that we should be spiritually healthy, be in good
health and strength. This is something of which to take
real account. The question on any given issue should
be—not: Is it right or wrong? (in a permissive
sense)—but: Will this unfit me for the battle? will
this in any way weaken me in the great campaign in which
I am engaged?
You see, it is fitness for the fight that matters, but
the peril of carelessness over it is ever present. So, to
the man to whom the Apostle says: “Suffer hardship
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ”, he will also
say: “Lay hold on eternal life” (1 Tim. 6:12,
A.V.). There are times when we are slack in this matter:
we need life, and there is life available, but we do not
lay hold of it as we should—we just let go. A
disciplined Christian is one who will say in the time of
threatening or actual weakness: ‘This is the time
for me to lay hold on life, not to give way, not to let
go. If I let go, I shall be put out of the fight. I must
put up my defenses against these things that would
weaken; I must react to this situation; I must resist; I
must lay hold on life.’
I can but hint at what I mean, but if you had read the
terrible account of the decimation of the forces in this
campaign by disease, through carelessness as to health,
you would see that there is point in this. And we have an
enemy who, in a spiritual sense, is constantly sending
germs our way, with the object of putting us out; but
there is such a thing as really laying hold on life,
being strong to resist, and maintaining our spiritual
strength by the grace of God.
(3) As To Selflessness
A further aspect of
discipline relates to the need of being always alive to
the fact that what we do or fail to do involves others.
An illustration is given in this book of how that worked
out in the case of one particular man (and maybe of
others through his example), who was on sentry duty under
war conditions. He was extremely, desperately tired,
almost exhausted, and yet he had a very important point
to guard. Many lives were involved in the matter of his
alertness. So, having to stand on guard in one place,
quietly and alone, for long hours of the night, what did
he do? He put his rifle in front of him with the bayonet
fixed, and he put his chin on the point of the bayonet,
so that if he nodded—well, he knew what would
happen. Because of others! That was something the
Commander in chief took note of, that the man should do a
thing like that because of his sense of responsibility.
To have nodded, to have gone off to sleep at that moment,
would maybe have given the enemy the advantage. We know
what the New Testament says about Satan getting an
advantage (2 Cor. 2:11).
But here again, the point of discipline is the
realization that we do not live to ourselves or die to
ourselves (Rom. 14:7); that in what we do we involve
others. That has already been said in an earlier chapter;
but let us hear the added emphasis as it comes up again
in this connection. ‘Now then, I must—or I must
not—and not only because of myself. If it were only
myself, well, what matter?’ If it just began and
ended with ourselves, we would sometimes perhaps let our
lives go and our testimony go. But there is very much
more in it. ‘I dare not, I must not—or I
must—because...’—because of others and
because of the battle. Discipline calls for selflessness.
(4) As To Losing Heart
How great is the constant temptation, under the long-drawn out wear and tear of the campaign, to weaken, to lose heart, just to drop out, or to cease to be a positive factor. How often we have to pull ourselves up, do we not, under discouraging conditions, when we are inclined to feel it is not worth it, when inertia comes over us and we fall into a state of despondency and depression. That is the time when discipline is tested. The undisciplined just give way; the disciplined do not. Our reaction to the temptation to give up will be according to whether we have or have not been thoroughly disciplined. We are tested then; we are found out.
(5) As To Service
Finally, discipline is related to service. That was involved in what we said just now, but it is particularly so in regard to the spirit of service. In the book that we have been considering, it is made very much of that there should be a spirit of service. I think that spirit is leaving the world, is being very largely lost to the world to day. There are very few left who have a spirit of service—shall I say, of servanthood. But the Lord Jesus said: “I am in the midst of you as he that serveth” (Luke 22:27). “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister” (Mark 10:45). It is not difficult to see the connection between service and discipline. Evidence of it is, indeed, provided by the association of the contrary conditions to these in the world today. The opposites go together: the loss of the spirit of service goes hand in hand with the loss of discipline.
The Lord’s Concern For Discipline
Let us now bring this
matter right over to our own lives as the Lord’s
people. It is very important for us to realize that the
Lord Himself is most particular on this question of
discipline. Perhaps we know it, in a way; perhaps we have
come up against it; and yet maybe we have not given it
much thought—we have not looked it straight in the
eyes and recognized it. The Lord Himself is very
particular about discipline. Whether we do or not, the
Lord views everything from the standpoint of the war. He
has filled the Bible with this matter of warfare. He
Himself is declared to be “a man of war” (Ex.
15:3). The Lord knows that there is a war on, and He
knows everything about it. We may think we know a little
about it, but He has complete cognizance of the full
extent and range of this spiritual war that is in
progress. For it is a terrific conflict that is raging
between these two great kingdoms and powers and systems.
And so He views everything from the standpoint of the
war, and deals with us on the basis of war conditions. He
is therefore most particular about this matter of
discipline.
Now, let your imagination rove over such a point of view,
and at once you will see why the Lord is very strict with
us. He would say to us, in effect: ‘Do you not
realize that you are in a great conflict? Do you not
realize that you are—or at any rate are supposed to
be—a soldier on active service, under war
conditions, and subject to all the rigours of such
conditions? In the light of this, what kind of Christian
are you?’ The Lord does not let us off; He pulls us
up, He really keeps us on a basis of discipline, because
He views everything from the standpoint of the war and
its issue, whether we are effectives or not. Perhaps that
is why He was seemingly a little unkind to Elijah under
the juniper tree. ‘What are you doing here? You are
supposed to be in the battle! What are you doing here?
The battle is on! We have just had one tremendous set to
on the mount, but we are not through with this yet. What
are you doing here?’ But whether that be the right
interpretation of the story or not, I find that very
often the Lord challenges me like that: ‘What are
you doing here, what do you mean by this? What are you
down there for? Are you forgetting that there is a war on
and that you are in it?’ So the Lord is careful,
particular; He deals with us from that standpoint and on
that basis.
And, as we said earlier, do not forget that the Lord
takes account of us in secret. The parade ground is one
thing, when everybody is looking on and we know what is
expected of us before all eyes. But the Lord takes
account of us in secret. He did of David. David was
God’s choice because He had watched him in
secret—in secret responsibility. You and I must
remember that God chooses and uses, promotes and
advances, those who remain true without the incentive of
publicity. Have you grasped that? Do you want the Lord to
choose you, to use you, to advance you, to give you more
responsibility, to promote you? He will do it, not by
what you are in the public eye, but by what you are in
secret: for it is there that discipline counts
most—when there is nothing whatever to give us an
incentive, other than, ‘Well, there is a battle on,
and we must count in it!’
This covers, of course, a lot of ground. It explains so much of the Lord’s dealings with us, does it not? That is why we have such discipline, why we are put into positions where it is so hard, where there is seemingly no inspiration, no encouragement, no incentive at all. We are brought into situations where we are either going to stand or fall, and sometimes the testing is the more intense because it seems to us not to matter which we do. That is a real test of discipline!
(B) Provisioning
We come now to a factor that will sooner or later vitally affect an Army and all the units which make up the Army —the matter of provisioning. There may be much enthusiasm at the setting out, a good deal of abandonment. There may be a great deal of initial good spirit and good intention. But the things that count in the long run are constitution and stamina and endurance, and those things depend upon provisioning, on supplies, on food. You know Napoleon’s statement, do you not, about that on which an Army advances? It is very true! And if it is true in the natural, it is equally, if not more, true in the spiritual. It is a very great mistake, indeed it positively imperils the Forces, to send them into the field on a hand to mouth basis of supply, without adequate support in resources. And in the story of which we are thinking, thinning ranks, disaffection, disintegration, and many other troubles arose because the men were not being properly fed, because adequate provisions were not available.
Provisioning A Vital Factor In Endurance
Food, then, is a vital
factor in the whole strategy of war. Provisioning is,
indeed, not a luxury—it is an absolute necessity;
and that is true spiritually. You and I must put from our
minds any idea that the obtaining of spiritual food is
something optional, governed by whether we feel inclined
for it or not. To have adequate resources available, and
to make good use of them, is an essential part of the
whole campaign. And so our attitude toward this matter
has to be quite a serious one. The war depends upon our
spiritual constitution, our powers of endurance, our
stamina, and these in turn depend upon our feeding, upon
the provision made. Fighting forces cannot continue
indefinitely on stimulants, certainly not on
‘dopes’; they need feeding.
But in the Christian world there is a lot of
‘stimulating’ and ‘doping’ going on
that is not feeding. It is an endeavour to work something
up, to get people going for a while; but it will not work
when they come into situations where real endurance is
called for. And so the Supreme Command takes account of
this—it makes provision for a long term conflict;
and the sooner we get adjusted to that, the better. There
are those who may fight pretty well if they think it is
all going to be over soon. But we know quite well, do we
not, from history that it is those who can hold out the
longest who win the day. How much there is in the New
Testament about this whole matter of spiritual stamina,
and endurance, and steadfastness! “He that endureth
to the end, the same shall be saved” (Matt. 10:22;
24:13). (Compare Heb. 3:6,14; 6:11; Rev. 2:26).
Now, there is far more in this matter of the Lord
providing spiritual food for us than perhaps we realize.
Let us make no mistake about it: sooner or later we shall
be found out over this. It will be those who have been
nourished in spiritual things, built up in spiritual
things; who have made good use of all the possibilities
of spiritual food available: it will be they who will
stand when the real test comes. Is it not true to our
experience, even in quite a simple way, that very often
when we are up against things we are able to draw upon
what the Lord has taught us in the past? Without that
reserve, we should be at a loss—we could not get
through; but now we are all the time able to draw upon
what the Lord has given us. How wonderfully it rises up,
again and again, just as He promised (John 14:26), to
save us in a critical hour and situation! We remember His
word and His way in the past: and it counts, it amounts
to something. But on the other hand, how many there are
who just go out under the pressure, because they have no
background—they have not that knowledge of the Lord
which the occasion demands.
The Need for Concern Regarding God’s Provision
But we need to remember
that, while the Lord is only too willing and ready to
make provision, He does demand that there be a concern
for it on the part of those for whom the provision is to
be made. I think that this goes to the heart of a great
deal. There is, as you know, a widespread complaint about
this matter of spiritual food: a complaint that there is
so little available, so little real teaching, so little
strong meat. However it may be put, there is quite a
complaint about this food shortage. But may not the
existence of the condition complained of be very largely
due to an insufficient concern for spiritual food on the
part of either the officers or the people? They have not
been careful over the matter, not really concerned about
it. They have been content to live upon a light diet of
Christian things. The Lord will make resources available
for those who really mean business. For those who are
really right in the battle, who are really concerned
about His honour and about the victory, the Lord will see
that adequate supplies are there. If you and I are not of
that mind and disposition, the Lord Himself will not
‘cast His pearls before swine’—He will not
give His spiritual riches to those who are not greatly
concerned. But, if we are, then He will make the
provision.
You see, the Lord always aims to make His provision profitable,
by giving it over against a practical background. There
has to be a practical background before we can profit by
the provision the Lord makes. That is why He is
constantly precipitating us into situations that make it
necessary for us to know Him in some deeper way. Is it
not a very familiar fact that what we have in the whole
of the New Testament is given to us over against a very
practical background? Men did not sit down to write
essays and treatises, and that sort of thing. They were
facing extremely critical situations, and they wrote to
meet those situations. It was matters of life or death
that drew out all these writings. That was the
background; and what was true then is still true in our
lives, that we shall never profit by the Lord’s
provision unless we have a practical background.
The Divine Provision—“The Bread Of Life”
What we need to grasp
is that the principle of food is life. It is not
a matter of whether we like or dislike, whether we fancy
or do not fancy—whether we are
‘finicky’—it is not that at all. It is
simply and entirely a matter of life—LIFE! That is
why the Lord Jesus said: “I am the bread of life”
(John 6:35). And if we are to profit by that Bread, there
must be the same life in us as is in the Bread. There
must be a correspondence of life—life taking hold of
life and life ministering to life. It has to be a vital
matter, not just interest.
It is a solemn fact that you can have a thorough going
acquaintance with the Bible as a book, and you can attend
all the Bible lectures that are going, and still not grow
spiritually. I know that to be true. For some years I was
closely associated with Dr. Campbell Morgan, as one of
the members of his Bible Teachers’ Association, the
whole method of which was the analytical teaching of the
Bible. But with all that, and years of it, many of the
people who attended the Bible lectures showed little or
no spiritual growth. Very few of them came to anything
like spiritual maturity; they were still babes after they
had heard it all. They had it all stored in their
notebooks—they knew it in that way; but as for being
vital factors in the great campaign, they counted for
little or nothing.
No: it is not merely a question of knowing the Bible in
that way, although that may be a useful thing as a
foundation. The essential thing is that it should be a
matter of life—indeed of life or death. Those are
the two alternatives. Our very survival depends upon this
matter of food.
And the food is Christ. The Lord Jesus did not say,
‘I give you a volume of teaching to feed upon.’
He said: “I am the bread of life”—‘I,
personally, am the bread of life’. And so
before we can profit by the bread we must know a vital,
practical relationship with Him. There has to be a life-relationship
between the feeder and the food.
It is really a question of the kind of food.
Different species require different kinds of food: the
food of one class of creation differs from that of
another. You and I could not live on the food of certain
species of animal; they probably could not live on our
kind of food. A spiritual person (which is to say a normal
Christian) belongs to a species whose need can only
be met by spiritual feeding: that is, by a real, living
knowledge of the Lord; and it is that alone that will
make for triumphant warfare. A ‘natural’,
intellectual acquisition of knowledge of the Bible is no
substitute for spiritual food.
Let us, then, seek to draw the important lessons from all
this. Let us not think of spiritual provision as
something that we can take or leave. Such an attitude
will find us out in the battle, sooner or later. I
believe that there are many in this world who are now
discovering the tremendous value of all that they have
been taught and have learnt of the Lord in the past,
while others are finding that they have not the resource
for going through.
(C) Flexibility
I quote again from the
book: ‘The hardest test of generalship is to hold
the balance between determination and flexibility. In
this the enemy failed. He scored highly by determination;
he paid heavily for lack of flexibility.’
In case this word ‘flexibility’ should occasion
difficulty, let us suggest some alternatives. For
instance: adjustableness; adaptability; teachableness, or
‘teachability’; resourcefulness; originality.
These are all sidelights on the word
‘flexibility’. In the South East Asia campaign,
the quotation that I have given meant just this: that the
enemy had got so much into a rut; he was so decided on a
certain course, and was so rigidly bound by it, that if
anything upset it he was completely demoralized. He had
no alternative; he had no resourcefulness with which to
meet a surprise, to meet something that was outside of
his programme. If things went off his set course, he was
just thrown into confusion. As this quotation says,
‘he paid heavily for his lack of flexibility’.
Here we really have something to learn.
Perhaps we cannot make too much of the quality of determination.
The New Testament is so full of the matter of steadfast
endurance: being set on going on: not being turned aside;
and this is right—we should be people like that. But
you see what is said here: ‘The hardest test of
generalship is to hold the balance between determination
and flexibility.’ When you get down to it, you find
that that really is a hard lesson: it is a hard thing to
learn how to adjust yourself to new situations, and yet
remain steadfast. Happily, we have some illustrations of
this in the New Testament, and we do not go very far into
the history of the Church before we come on them.
(1) Peter And Cornelius
Now Peter had got his fixed way, his fixed position, according to the Old Testament and his interpretation of it. And from his fixed position, his rigid, static position, he would argue with the Lord: “Not so, Lord”! Until he had “thought on the vision” (Acts 10:19), and got through with the Lord on the matter, he was not flexible, he was not adjustable, he was not even teachable. But what a tremendous advance, not only for Peter, but for the whole Church, when, without giving away any steadfastness or determination, he adjusted to the new light that the Lord gave, to a new knowing of the Lord, and the way of the Lord. And yet many people cannot do that; they just cannot do it.
(2) Philip And The Ethiopian Eunuch
Take the incident of
Philip and the eunuch. It is just the same principle.
Philip was down at Samaria, and under the blessing of the
Lord wonderful things were happening. Philip could easily
have said, ‘The Lord is blessing me, the Lord is
doing a great thing: I ought therefore not to leave
this—this is where the Lord is working, this is what
the Lord is doing’, and so on. Well, of course it
depends upon whether the Lord tells you to or not. But it
also depends on whether you are open to the Lord: upon
your having no fixity or finality about your position,
but being ready to be moved by the Lord—even though
it may seem a strange kind of move to be transferred from
a revival centre, with many coming to the Lord, to an
almost empty desert.
Nevertheless, it meant no small advance for the Church
that Philip was flexible. For the matter did not end with
a desert. From that point there opened up for Philip a
long story of ministry. We are not now dealing with New
Testament development or history; but you will find, if
you look into it, that, after this contact with the
Ethiopian, some very vital things came into being through
the ministry of Philip. And it all hung upon this matter
of flexibility, adjustableness; on whether the Lord was
free to have His way in that life, or whether Philip
would say, ‘No: this is where I am and this is how
things are; this is what the Lord is doing and where He
is doing it; and here I stay’! It may be that
comparable issues are in the balance in the lives of many
servants of the Lord to day.
(3) Paul And Macedonia
One more
illustration—and it is a very great one, is it
not?—Paul and Macedonia. Paul was set on going to
Asia and Bithynia. But he came to the point where he was
brought up short—“forbidden of the Holy
Spirit”: “the Spirit of Jesus suffered them
not” (Acts 16:6–7). But Paul was adjustable,
that is the point; he was flexible. And so—Macedonia
and Europe! and how much more!!
These three examples illustrate the principle of being
open to the Lord: of being in the Lord’s hands and
not in your own: of not being under any fixed mind as to
what the Lord should do, and where He should do it, or
how He should do it—that is with Him. It is one of
the most important principles that the Lord would teach
us.
God’s Unchanging Truths And Changing Methods
We have to recognize
that there are two sets of things. On the one side there
is fundamental truth, about which we are never flexible
and from which we never depart. There can be no question
of giving up fundamental truth, or of changing our
foundations. They remain: on that we are—or should
be— inflexible. We ought to be immovable, too, on
the matter of the all governing object of God: as to
that, we are set, and nothing will move us. And it is
also required that we be found with steadfastness of
spirit.
But, on the other side, we have to recognize that God
changes His methods. While He does not change His truths
and His foundations and His object, He changes His
methods. He has in His own sovereign right the
prerogative to do as He will, and to do a new thing that
was never heard of before. But that is something that
Christianity today, for the greater part, just will not
allow! It will not even allow God Almighty to do
something that He has never done before! The lines are
set, the whole compass of truth is boxed; the methods are
so and so, the recognized ways and means are these.
Depart from these, and—well, you are unsafe, you are
dangerous. There is no room allowed for the Holy Spirit
to do new things. But herein is the balance: with the
unchanging foundations of truth, unchanging object of
God, unchanging steadfastness of spirit, on the one side,
there is yet, with all that, a balance to be kept, on the
other side, with God’s changing methods, God’s
sovereign right to ‘go off the lines’ if He
wills: for the lines may not be His lines at
all—they may be man’s lines. God says, “I
will do a new thing”, and His absolute right to do a
new thing must be recognized.
So much, then, for flexibility. It is a very important
thing. Fixity in tradition, immovability in certain
doctrinal positions, is resulting in great
misunderstanding and confusion, arrest and
disintegration. Through this limiting of the Holy Spirit,
much is being lost.
Now, even if we do not grasp or appreciate much of the
details, there are simple lessons lying on the surface of
these three things that we have considered.
(a) Discipline. The Lord must have a disciplined
people, and He is very particular about our discipline in
all its connections—behaviour, spiritual health, and
so on.
(b) Provisioning. The Lord would have a well
nourished people, and He would have us careful about our
spiritual food, to guard it. The enemy has a real eye to
business on the food of God’s people, as Gideon will
tell us (Judges 6:3–4, 11).
(c) Flexibility. The Lord’s desire is that,
while we should be very steadfast and immovable as to
those things which are fundamental to the faith, and in
spirit, and in relation to His ultimate end, we should
yet be so open to Him, so teachable, as to be, in a right
way, pliable; in a right way, yes, changeable. There is
much paradox about all these things, is there not? It is
wrong to be changeable in some ways, but when it is the
Lord calling for this adjustableness to Himself and what
He would do, it is certainly right, and our response may,
indeed, affect the whole issue of the war.
These things, presented to us in the Word by illustration
and incident, embody very important principles. But when
all is said, it comes back to this—everything
strengthens this matter: We are in a war—a
war that is no mere vague, abstract, ‘airy
fairy’ kind of thing, but is very real, with many
practical matters relating to the issue. These practical
matters of behaviour, of provisioning, and of
adjustability, all relate to the issue of this war.
The Lord teach us, then, the laws of—
OUR WARFARE!
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