"At this moment, our thoughts turn to our fighting men and to those who love them, mothers, wives and sweethearts at home. Beside them stand the soldiers of our old ally, France, and with them Poland, Norway, Belgium and Holland, peoples upon whose peaceful lands has fal: len all the horror of treacherous an: unprovoked aggression, "At this fateful hour, we turn, as our fathers before us have turned in all times of trial, to God on high. Here, in the old country, I have asked that Sunday next should be observed as a day of national prayer. It may be possible for many of our brethren across the seas to join their prayers with ours.
"Let us, with one heart and soul, humbly but confidently commit our cause to God and ask His aid that we may valiantly defend right as it is given to us to see it, "Peoples of the Empire, men and women in all quarters of the globe, I say to you: Put into your task whatever it may be all the courage and purpose of which you are capable, keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshaken. Let us go forward to that task as one man, a smile on our lips and our heads held high, and with God's help we shall not fail"—Reuter.
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