Chosen to be a soldier

- John Cleary in JAC online -

 ‘Then who wouldn’t be a soldier,

 An Army soldier, a valiant soldier,

Every soldier goes to war,

 That’s what we’ve enlisted for,

And we don’t want any dummies in the Army’

 

How about the confidence, almost arrogance of that lyric?  Yet it is utterly innocent and free of guile.  Here is a vision of belief and confidence.  This is a song written and sung by a winning team... A team sure in its vision certain of its goals and convinced in its world redeeming relevance.

 

Who would write such a song today without a whiff of irony and scepticism?

 

‘Of this Great Church of the Living God, we claim and have ever claimed, that we of The Salvation Army are an integral part and element – a living fruit bearing branch in the True Vine’.  (Bramwell Booth)[1]