• The War Prayer. by Mark Twain. ... Then came the “long” prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language.
  • "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war.
  • The War Prayer by Mark Twain. I have often prayed for God to bless our troops, to protect them, and to give them victory.
  • God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest, Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword! Then came the “long” prayer. ... “God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer.
  • The War Prayer, a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as...
  • The War Prayer was featured as The Short Story of the Day on Thu, Aug 13, 2015. ... Add The War Prayer to your library. Return to the Mark Twain library , or . . .
  • The War Prayer. by Mark Twain. [1904]. ... Then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory!
  • Outraged by American military intervention in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short story called "The War Prayer" in 1905.
  • The War Prayer” is a short story by Mark Twain. ... The War Prayer” is primarily set in a church, where a minister prays for victory as a country prepares for war.