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Excerpt from The New Crusade: Occasional Sermons and Addresses
I wonder if the time has not come for the preaching of a new crusade. Does not this age demand a Peter the Hermit or a St. Bernard rather than a Gamaliel or a Thomas Aquinas? I know there is something quixotic and disconcerting in the name Crusade, for the mention of it carries the mind back to those mighty movements of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in which masses of men ?ung themselves upon the Holy Land in des perate and futile effort to wrest from the grip of the Saracen the tomb of our Lord. And when one thinks of the madness and superstition, the cruel ties and barbarities, the disillusionment and vast catastrophes of those immortal campaigns, he feels like offering up the prayer, From all crusades of every sort may the good Lord deliver us!
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