"Whence came they? Whence came they not? Who are they? What manner of men? To forget the regular goldier is as culpable as to imagine that all men took after him. Had it not been for them and what they stood for, had it not been for the unchallengeable men at sea, the stage, before any others had had time to reach it, would assuredly have gone down in ruins, T have no time to tell, but you must read. Read the letters' of fallen Englishmen, a biography" of Rennie, Boulton, an anthology of soldiers' verses, and read between the lines and try to Tecapture for yourselves their virtues in the common men of England. Whatever else you do not read, do not neglect Donald Hankey.
"Then said I unto the angel, what young man is it that crowneth them and give th them palms in their hands?" So he answered and said unto me It is the Son of God.' And He who died at 8 after three years of ministry which set the world aflame, most truly walked with these and welcomed them. There was a Christin' Flanders. There in the dark of a dug-out, the fine old Colonel admits that he never goes to sleep until he has said his evening Mitere crouched in the shell ote, one man pulls out the Gospels and reads silently, until others tell him read aloud:
There is a sunken cellar or there a crazy garret, the Upper Room renews Its grace with a new meaning. There they met him, as a man meets his friend over the broken bread and poured out wine, so full of meaning to those who like him, gave their bodies to be broken and their blood poured out in the service of humanity. In an Upper Room in peringhe men "of many nations met. Tubby Clayton tells how five Chinese from a Labour Corps came the stairs as he was baptizing three' dark-skinned Jamaicans to whom three British West Indian Regiment sergeants were. sponsors, while Canadians and Australians came to witness the ceremony. There we have a promise and a fragment. These things shall be. There shall yet come a time when in the fellowship of the Saviour of the world, the children of men shall sit" down in the large Upper Room. 'These things shall be—if you do something about it—if you make ready the room. the silence 1 bid you pray "O God make us better men and women, and. give peace in our time', interpreting our prayer, as I think we should interpret all our prayers, as a prayer not only to God to do for us what we desire, but an offer of ourselves to do what les in us to bring that prayer about.
"hen said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father has sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye' the Holy Ghost. Upon us algo. that commission Is laid, to go' out into all the world with a minis try of reconciliation entrusted to us. for the healing of its wounds and the securing of its peace.
"Let us, therefore, pray, first that we may see more clearly what Christ would have us to do. As we pray for right judgment so let us pray for in fulfilling what we see te be needful—for sacrifice in not letting our fears and our excuses prevent us; for sympathy that we may commend his ways to others; for tunity among ourselves, so that' what we profess may not be belied by what we practice."
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