Even every massacre of the peaceful Jews in Russia is sanctioned by the Greek Christian Church,—and the Roman and the Protestant churches and the Christian governments of the world do _not_ unite and demand peace for the peaceful Jews. “God moves in a _mysterious_ way his wonders to perform,” we are piously taught. Mysterious. Very. But it is _not_ mysterious why pro-war preachers, priests, and bishops are not slaughtered on the battleline and then eaten by buzzards when the cannon’s feast is finished. These men are too intelligent—too cunning—for the buzzards’ banquet. Every distinguished professional butcher in modern times has been a “member in good standing” in his denomination and his blood-stenched fame is recited with pride. That mysterious? All soldiers are blessed as they march away to “Death’s feast.” The preacher consecrates the cut-throat. The bayonet is prepared—with prayer—to be thrust into the bowels of the toilers. All wars are somehow pronounced “mysteriously the will of God”; and the cannoneers who hurl shot and shell into a city or village and cannonade helpless women and children—these are “the servants of the Lord”—mysteriously. And thus to the appalling music of the cannon’s roar the Cross is dragged down into the bloody mire where men die cursing the preachers safe at home who helped trick them to the hell called war. And thus, too, the spirit of the great fraternal Christ is banished from the lives of the betrayers and the betrayed—and Christ is crucified anew. Because it is profitable. Thus in all Christian nations the Cross dips obsequiously to the red-throated cannon—and to the cash-register. Business is business; the rulers rule; and gold is God. That is, under capitalism. Reader, name one “civil” war or one international war of modern times powerfully, effectively hindered by the Church of the Man of Peace.[292] Just one. But no matter! Since long before the slaughter of the Carpenter our brothers of the working class have furnished the blood and tears—cheap blood, cheap tears,—about forty cents a day for American “regulars” in the “year of our Lord” 1910. Learn this, you toilers: The capitalists have the preacher cornered and shackled. The working class must be their own saviors from the horrors of war. In Chapter Ten I shall explain how this can be done and even now begins to be done by the working class. But the workers should learn from history and keep distinctly in mind this great lesson: With noble individual exceptions the ministry, the religious leaders, have in times past _defended chattel slavery_ with its unspeakable horrors for the _working_ class; and have _defended serfdom_ with its hell for the _working_ class; and have ignobly defended all Christian national and international wars of modern capitalism praying on both sides to the “God of battles” for “glorious victory” regardless of the blood spurting from a million wounds in the torn breast of the _working_ class.