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• Weariness In Warfare

  27 May, 2013

  In the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, there is a huge mosaic made out of coloured glass and depicting a number of significant events in American history. To one side of that massive mosaic are these words spoken by the 4th President of the USA, James Madison.

  I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations 

  I was tempted to ignore it because the words sounded dated and were, therefore, probably irrelevant. Fortunately, I resisted that temptation and took time to read it and inwardly translate it into what sounded like more contemporary language .  It came out sounding like this:

  I'm convinced that those in power try to take away the power of others more often than not by patient stealth and covert activity rather than by overt and sudden preemptive strikes. (I guess that doesn't sound any better!!)

  We grow weary in our warfare when it drags on and on. Our enemy is not in a hurry. He is well able to outlast us. He is OK whether gaining an advantage over us takes a long campaign or a quick victory.