“What news is this? Oh, tell me true! What did the boy of my fond hopes do? Murdered his sweetheart? Oh, loving God! This comes from the wicked path he trod. A drunken quarrel? She led him on! And he’s a murderer! my son, my son!” Mother, when bidding your child farewell, With heartaches more than tongue can tell, When laying him low in the cold, cold ground, And tenderly heaping the little mound— There’s a land of hope just over the hill, Where your baby will be your baby still. No news of him will ever pain Your aching, loving heart again. Silent he sleeps in the earth’s cool breast, And when life’s sun has set, in the west, And you lie down at his side, he will Be your darling baby still. Only a little while ahead— A little nap for the silent dead— A little trouble, and sorrow, and pain, And you will be with your child again. Safer with you is the child you find Than the full-grown man you leave behind. And tho’ the promised future is dim, ’Tis enough to know—you shall sleep with him, And all through eternity your baby will Be your darling baby still. WISH I WERE A JEW I wish I were a Jew. The more I study the situation, the more I wish to be a Jew. I have found fault with the Jews, from the Christian point of view, and I would like to turn around and fire a few broadsides into my delinquent Christian friends from the Hebrew standpoint. Not that I would condemn Jesusism, but to show the Christian world how far they are off the track of the meek and lowly Jesus, when he commanded his followers with a new commandment. Did Jesus mean anything when he said: “A new commandment I give unto you; that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” If I were a Jew I would ask my fellow Christians whether they believe that Christ only loves them after the style and fashion of their love for one another? I would ask them if these great navies and mighty armies of armed men, trained to kill each other in new and improved style, are imitations of Christ’s great love for men? Are England and Germany and France and Russia and the United States and Spain and Italy and all the South American republics loving each other as Christ loved the world? If these are truly Christian nations, then the Jews must take it for granted that they are imitating the love of Jesus, as ordered in the “New Commandment.” If these so-called Christian nations are not obeying the “New Commandment,” then they are not Christian nations, and their pretense is sheer hypocrisy.