Stool and the battle hymn of the Republic

"He comes as the glory of the morning air,

He is the wisdom, the mighty, he is in honor of the brave;

So the world his stool, and the soul of wrong His slave,

Our God is marching.

Glory! Glory! Alleluia! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! Glory! Alleluia! Our God is marching. "

This last stanza Battle Hymn was written by Julia Civil W. Howe (1819 - 1910) in 1861 in the early days of AmericanWar>. Howe visited a Union Army camp on the Potomac River near Washington, DC, as soldiers singing the song "John Brown's Body is one," and was taken with the strong marching beat. Wrote the words early the next day. "I woke up in the gray of the morning, and when I was waiting for the dawn, started along the lines of the poem you want, is wrapped in my head and I said:" I get up and write these verses, so I sleep and forget! "I jumped upNight and twilight found an old stump of a pen, I remembered the previous day. I scrawled the verses almost without looking at the paper.

The hymn appeared in Atlantic Monthly in 1862, Howe was given five dollars for their literary efforts.

It 'was sung at the funeral, among others, Winston Churchill (1965), the U.S. assassinated Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968, and the former U. S. President Ronald Reagan.

Some commentators argue that the "Battle Hymn topicnothing to do with Christianity or God 'a political-patriotic song for the destruction of the South, written in religious language. Howe deliberately created the idea that the North was to do God's work. He paints a picture of a vengeful God destroying His enemies to the south, north and uplifting thing that a "holy war." Howe portrays the South and its people as evil and the enemy of God

As a Unitarian, Julia Ward Howe believed UnitariansDoctrine that man is good and typically can redeem himself by his own merits, without the help of a savior. He pointed to fundamental biblical truth as a literal hell, "I threw away, once and forever the terrible thought of hell, which seems impossible." Howe also refuted the exclusive claim of Jesus, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." [John 14:6] with the words: "We rejected the exclusive doctrine that Christianityand special forms of it, the only way to spiritual salvation, now accept the belief that not only Christians but all, whatever their religion, their salvation capable. Christianity was not one of God's plans for the collection of all mankind in a state of perfection. "

Others suggest the song does not praise the war, but enhances the cause of the war was fought. It 'surprising superficiality of people leaving the cause of it,Abolition of slavery was centered in a small group of extremist anti-Christian. There is nothing in the text of the battle hymn of the Republic, which every liberal does not agree with right-thinking person.

And so with the words "the world is his footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave, Our God is marching on." Julia Ward Howe describes much more than the conflict between unionists and confederates. In fact, this was a matter of good and evil, right versus wrong with Howefirmly on the side of the abolitionists.