Twain, Mark, — The War Prayer.

NY, Perennial/HarperCollins, (2002). VG PB. Written by Twain during the Philippine-American War tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off. to war. A stranger enters and tells the crowd that by praying for victory they are also praying for the destruction of the enemy, the destruction of human life. Originally rejected for publication in 1905 as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine, this antiwar parable remained unpublished until 1913 when Twain's literary executor collected it in the volume Europe and Elsewhere.