The Micah Mandate, from Theodore Roosevelt

At the start of World War I, Theodore Roosevelt was no longer President. But the country and our soldiers still respected him and he was asked to draft the inscription that would be printed inside Bibles given to every U.S. soldier. It was called the "Micah Mandate."

"The teaching of the New Testament is foreshadowed in Micah's verse, "What more doth the Lord require of thee than to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." Do justice; and therefore fight valiantly against those that stand for the reign of Moloch and Beelzebulb on this earth. Love mercy; treat your enemies well; succor the afflicted; treat every woman as if she were your sister; care for the little children; and be tender with the old and helpless. Walk humbly; you will do so if you study the life and teachings of the Savior, walking in His steps. And remember; the most perfect machinery of government will not keep us as a nation from destruction if there is not within us a soul. No abounding of material prosperity shall avail us if our own spiritual senses atrophy. The foes of our own household will surely prevail against us unless there be in our people an inner life which gives its outward expression in a morality like unto that preached by the seers and prophets of God when the grandeur that was Greece and the glory that was Rome still lay in the future."

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