Who will judge the rightness of Prophet Moses
Who rejected the riches of Pharoah’s court
To wander forty years in the wilderness
And die alone outside the Promised Land?
Or the choice of the Apostles, James, John,
Andrew, Peter, who left their fishing nets,
And Matthew his office of tax collector,
To follow the Christ, Who had no place to lay His Head?
Shall the imperious, impersonal marketplace,
Which stamps a value upon beans and bread,
Weigh the worth of a man’s soul and its acts?
By what rule shall we measure the martyrs’ glory?
They whose beauty was broken on torture wheels,
Whose youth was crushed out beneath stones and steel,
Whose old age was honored with the scorching flame?
Shall the professional neo-gladiators
Show them the prototype of a great man?
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The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/god-is-the-best-judge/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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