302 312 the worthy man lifted not a finger
to avert the doom of such a martyr
to martial discipline. So to do would

not only have been as idle as invoking
the desert, but would also have
been an audacious transgresson of the
the bounds of his function, one as
exactly prescribed to him by military
75 law as that of ^ the boatswain or any other navy naval
76
omitted
officer. Bluntly put, a chaplain is an anomalous personage
is the minister of the Prince of Peace
serving in the host of the God of War—
Mars. As such, he is as incongruous
as a that musket of Beecher &c would be on the altar
at Christmas. Why then is he there?
Because he indirectly subserves the purpose
attested by the cannon; because too he lends the
sanction of the religion of the meek to that
which practically is the abrogation of everything
but sheer brute Force
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302 312 the worthy man lifted not a finger
to avert the doom of such a martyr
to martial discipline. So to do would

not only have been as idle as invoking
the desert, but would also have
been an audacious transgresson of the
the bounds of his function, one as
exactly prescribed to him by military
75 law as that of ^ the boatswain or any other navy naval
76
omitted
officer. Bluntly put, a chaplain is an anomalous personage
is the minister of the Prince of Peace
serving in the host of the God of War—
Mars. As such, he is as incongruous
as a that musket of Beecher &c would be on the altar
at Christmas. Why then is he there?
Because he indirectly subserves the purpose
attested by the cannon; because too he lends the
sanction of the religion of the meek to that
which practically is the abrogation of everything
but sheer brute Force
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Transcribed by: Christopher Ohge