Serbia in Light and Darkness: With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) — John Shaqi
Serbia in Light and Darkness: With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)Velimirović, Nikolaj
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Serbia in Light and Darkness: With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)
Velimirović, Nikolaj
Proverbs, Serbian; Serbia; Serbian poetry -- Translations into English
Now England is conscious why she entered the war. She knows now that
somebody else pushed her into this Avar, and that she is fighting for
somebody else's cause. This somebody else is--God. The sons of Great
Britain going to the East to fight are going the same pathway as their
ancestors went in the time of the Crusaders. The same way, the same aim:
to save the honour of the Cross and to fight for Freedom! It is the
pathway of supreme suffering, but also the only pathway of real glory
and merit. Any other way for England's greatness was impossible. England
had to choose either the way of pettiness or of greatness. She chose the
second. God bless England!
We pray to Thee, our Father, in order not to change Thy will but ours.
Thy will be done! If Serbia is an impediment to human civilisation and
an evil, as our German brothers think, Father, make of Serbia a salt
lake before they make of her a cemetery. Yet Thy will be done and not
ours. We are thine in our righteousness and in our sins. What is,
indeed, the whole of our planet? A small grain of dust. What are we,
then, on this small grain of dust? We, men, either great or little? We,
nations, rich or poor? We, the churches, either right or wrong? One word
only I dare to say: the silence in Thy presence shall be our name, and
our prayer. Even on the brightest and most peaceful day of our life,
there is no true light except Thee. How much more we need Thy light in
the darkness of the present moment! We are a small grain of dust under
Thy throne, but remember, the only grain of dust which can consciously
worship Thee. That shall be our only glory and pride among our brothers:
animals, plants, and stones. But in worshipping Thee we become fellows
of the stars. Lord, be our everlasting Sun and cast Thy light on every
star, now and for ever. Amen.
SERBIA AT PEACE.
_Delivered for the first time at Cambridge, in the New Lecture Rooms,
the Vice-Chancellor of the University in the chair._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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