How true it is that we who stay behind
Can find us useful too;
For there’s for each, if he is so inclined,
Real work at home to do.
Red Cross, Blood Bank, War Bonds, and war-jobs’ noise
Are vital, if the War
Be won for us; but I believe the Boys
Expect just one thing more
When they return: they want a Church still here,
And we must not neglect
God’s House, in spite of other work’s severe
Demands. Though, I expect,
Some are who feel “The Church must always be,
And so why worry now
In times like these?” But this is sophistry
For right to disavow.
That “God takes Care of His” is true enough,
But truer yet it is
That He will help the man who has the stuff
To make God’s business his!
A. Non Emous
by Ray Romine Sunday, September 19, 1943
