"We have met here this morning, according to our annual custom, that we may make our solemn act of memorial befor God of those our comrades and friends who wert bhut did not come back, and it is right and fitting that' we should take the opportunity which our Association offers us of paying this tribute of affection and respect to their memory.
jut linked up with that memory, the rementbrance of the things that our eyes have seen comes back to us also, the waste, the cruelty, the suffering, the devitry of war, and opposed to these the courage, the self-sacrifice, the endurance, ant the other finer qualities of soul which were the glory of human nature during that period.
"Moreover, it is our part foul to remind you of the eternal verities once again, lest ye forget these wonderful and terrible things which our eyes have seen.
"Within these walls is present a composite war-memory which ranges through the world.
"The preparation and transport for war—war in the air and on the Jand, war on and under the sea, these aspects are represented here today, and we might say that the whole "gamut of war experience is present in the collective memory of this congregation.
"Now if th collective conseiou: ness of those present could be pieced together and become artien-Into, it could tell of the things which we have seen and could be mess to the wide range and fearful intensity of the powers of evil during the dark days and of the *Jequally wonderful display of the finer human qualities which oppos-those powers limprt of these Facts "But though; we -may: haye the bare facts in mind; have -we not
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