Give rest, O Christ, (o Thy servanta with Thy Sainte: Where sorrow and pain are no more; Neither sighing, but life everlasting. All we go down to the dust, and weeping o'er the grave, We make our song, Alleluya!
Of Tallis' Funeral Music which was played before the National Anthem one cannot speak in better words than those of the edi who have restored this treasure of English nrusic to us. "The great moving utterance of Tallis speaks to us from the spacious days of Elizabeth,"and it seems to have been waiting through the centuries for this fateful time.
Dies us tune ourealves to it, listening with bowed heads and undaunted 'The collection, which amounted to $1,883.90 and Tls. 135.00, was devoted to the British Red' Cross Bociety.
At the Union Oburch, The seating capacity of the Union Church was also taxed to ite limits. The service was conducted by the Rev. O, E. Darwent assisted by the Reverends E. Box, M. Cameron, W. Hopkyn Rees, and Mr. J, H. Crocker. A number of men from the Scottish Com-Pany. and a few from other units of the Volunteers, oe cupied front pews.
The sermon preached by the Rev. C. E. Darwent was on the text 1 Chronicles V. 90: For they cried unto God in the battle: and He was entreated of them."" Mr. Darwent said: We can only pray with confidence if we—believe our cause is just. What then justifies us British people in praying for victory! There are three or four ressons given by Dr. R. F. Horton, a6 peaceful a man as ever lived, which I will give and add others. -Prayer is paralyzed if we doubt the honesty of our cause, The first reason he gives is that we had no choice but to fight. This war was none of our seeking. If we and our Allies had intended to attack Germany, as they say, we should have been more ready for war. That should be clear even to German. I was in England when the Austrian archduke was killed and I can testify thad sympathy was "ith Austria. No one dreamt of war. Then the possibility of it grew on ue—as Austria under Ger. man pressure hardened, The Blue Books show how our statesmen tried to gob the matter at issue referred tos European Conference, but all in vain, We were pledged to defend Belgium—ax Germany was—and we did not @reat our treaty as a "'scrap of paper." We can vee now, war wae determined om, We hed to fight for national existence, may be asked how do we know that? For one thing have now read German War-books, which we ought to have read years before—in which all this cynically frank about it We were too heedless, too confiding to believe that these books of which we had-beard rumours were really meant. Now we sce from them that a plan has been maturing for years to emaeh France, then Russia, then us, Their is Treitschke who glorifies war. His disciple Bernbardi is quite freak, He says: "it wee our own fault that we (that is, Germany) wers condemned to political paralysis at the time when other great European States built themselves up. What we now wish to attain must be fought for." "Further we must now decide whether we wish to develop into a World Empire." "We must square our account with France if we wish for a free hand in our international policy."
Dr. Horton quotes " terrible passage from Maximilian Harden, the famous journalist, Harden says: Cease the pitiful attempt to excuse Germany's action, Not as weak blunderers have we undertaken the fearful risks of this wi we wanted it, Because we had to wish it and could wish it, Germany strikes. We were obliged to fashion the mightiest weapon for it, That wae only possible because millions of industrious Germans bad made poor Germany rich, and able to prepare for, and conduct the war as a great industry' Now we know what the war is for—not for French or Polish territory bat to hoist the storm-flag of the Empire on the narrow channel that opens and locks the road to the ocean!" Thad is plain enough—it was o deliberately-made war se cording to their own prophets, Next: now that our eyes are opened, we sce s thousand proofs jof it that confirm what we read in their war-books. What nation accumulated huge stocks of munitions and guns! Not our' Modern powder will keep only short time. Who then will believe that Germany intended keep-that stock for twenty years till it spoiled? What nation had armies of spies and secret agente? Not our's. What nation had manufactured enormous siege guar secretly? Not our's, We can then pray sincerely that being attacked God will help and give us victory, France bed not kept her preparations up. It was not France that kept incressing her army on a peace footing!
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