p. 16 | Curus Christian Dooty

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 5, 1877

“Curus Christian Dooty.”

THE style of the following lines we neither fancy nor approve; but the sentiment is too pointed and good to be lost; and for the sake of that we tolerate the quaint garb in which it is presented. We take it from the Advocate of Peace where it is introduced with these lines:—

“The following paragraphs from the renowned author, Hosea Biglow (James Russell Lowell), though written more than twenty years ago, have lost none of their force; and their pointed sarcasm is applicable to the present generation.”

“Ez for war, I call it murder, There you have it, plain and flat; I don’t want to go no furder Then my Testyment for that. God has said so, plum and fairly, It’s as long as it is broad, And you’ve got to git up airly If you’re goin’ to cheat the Lord.

“’Taint yeur eppylettes and feathers, Makes the thing a grain more right, ’Taint a follerin’ your bell-weathers Will excuse you in his sight. Ef you take a sword and draw it And go stick a feller thru, Gov’ment aint to answer for it, God will send the bill to you.

“Wot’s the use o’ meetin’ goin’ Every Sunday, wet or dry, Ef it’s right to go a mowin’ Feller-men like oats and rye? I dunno but what it’s pooty Trainin’ round in bobtail coats, But it’s curus Christian dooty, This ere cuttin’ folks’s throats.”