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can properly understand these hunt to the sacrifice they were prepared |

a great malitud.... Wi through But Holy Scripture has to us to make not even life itself

wanderd number them in gore, but cnough to transform denth No longer The contest they had been engaged in what power of ingation able to was a phase of the mystic war which a depicted here as trying taken place m

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worshipped within thom who fight the good figla on earth These walis halatwalls are reckoned

a being in partnership one of the Jest to full or Curse who with the heavenly hemi N. Primarily the wet from this Colany, poids the very eference must be to the martyrs for the first, was a Jember of ongregation farth, who it here and reward here on faylough in England when the wor after were constantly in mind with thbroke out ththers we mat unul dege weiler and readers. of its book of Fare

word har to VHF JOKES Revelations The had hazarded ali and fasten mafiyaduals Alongs DAIN gaven all for the cause of Christ A number, brothers, nephews, 1. PA that wan hath will give for hislatives of near degree, life," steered the Accuses and Adversary

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JAPANEIRES What fe worth if these be forfeited? What value is there in scores of years if they are spent under the secret reprouch of duty refeed, allegiance betrayed, vision dis obrved, the Bighest unattempted!

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corps who went from this sturionn an their W remember also the men of varions

of the Shropshire Battipa. f the dif turn, the brave lads of the fornwalls,

ferent units in the land tune the prest aisu of the Monmouth and the Triumph, ast when used to share our worship, and all of whom had our good. will stui, suffered very wetends and many Some of these bodies, we under- time are rernils them to thek think that few out of all their munder alat amongst Its here it is hard to

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left, But there is nothing meis parociant what we do to day. Our grateful not confined to the few We may have wet and known up who hat with our foenlity. We are part of the Kat Fellowship of the Nation, Dominoma, Calomnes, Hepend on us which compose the very weplerfa: Empres which it has plensed God to permit to krow wider the Bag with the crimson cross the heart of it, and which is now Sut togeiler as not before by the shed- danig of so much of its lost Good in the good camur '211 Me

From the north and south, from the east and west, from both herwispheres and from

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they gathered at the cali, millions of them as voluntary recruits before there of them, at any rate after the first few me even talk about compulsion, and alt

oks, with knowledge of the sera work which lay lefore them and the likelihool that it would ask their al The like world, and it will seem more atud snore wary never known in the histors of the

of a wonder as future time punes 22.

Self preservation may be the first law of nature, but thank flod it is not the final appeal to human nature, and the stors of christianity proves that it wholly secondary to the power of grace, Th dragon and his angels Those in Paradier are conscious. It

warring Ageinst the SÚNG found themselves true there are figures that speak of opposed by the expulsive power of a them as sleeping, but they are not in how affection,"

ended to convey unconsciousness

a loyalty and devotion and Abraham were able to speak to each even the instinctive love of life.

Dhives Jesus Christ strong eng in displace her.

Such Moes and Elijah were consious is the inveterate and incurable error of Throughom the length and breadth of the Divine tells us that the sprirate of fallen tungels or only mean mitted

stion they appeared to Christ, St. Johnall engaged in evil enterprises, be they the Benish Frapire on this day solennone who had been beheaded were alive. Judging others on themselves they cou- Montorial servies are being held in con

Our Lord preached to the disdiceient evive they have but to apply enough surm.ration of those who have fallen in departed spirits after his crucifixion pressure, and opposition will give way the war I would Jain hope that in other evidently dry were

hurehog Pets are less empty places than the same caracter as on earth.

consetous and had KH, kill, said the persecutors of the 1 store me to day.

Death Church, and when the expedient failed This is a solemn

cannot destroy some thitungen: 11 Cerastiul and an opportunity for us to

enausta, el suggest nothing but its still destroy our personality, memory, breve, or more ruthless application. and gratefu! respect show car reversal for the hundreds of thousands of teen Man. Those who fell on the battle field ingine that terrorista would serve his Binne om of So did the hea 123 the lat WHI who have died on our behalf. Words tands for min speaking of the magn

are the summe, and, I doubt not that they Hern, but today there is wailing andt, and from islands in every ocean, are initely better men through all gnashing of teeth because tude of the tragedy.

truet Car imagination eternity because of the start that they weapon has but mereed the but at 428 un perose Coose miles of graves in id in offering themselves as a sterilire Belgium and France, in Italy and Rus

it Be thought to rush the for obers. Lite after death is a life of life out of Belgium with giant iron heel, pang, Serbia, Runnura, at Gullipuli, in

progles and servire; there is nothing of but all he did wna to nichon the im Palestine,

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para and gloom. So we think of the mortal sol of a gallant union. Arica and other places, and the graven day as growing in grace, serving un

France of those who died in Austria and Ger.

1 side of the veil while we are on this And we think of the thousands inside, cach in the presence of Christ. need were, and such a nation cannot ur Royal Navy and Merchant Service Think says Patterson Suyth, how he conquermid. who found a watery grave, as well as thes are being lovingly trained and disrake serial commemoration of those

Met as we are today to Belgiem and France I have already non ebastants alas, done to death by ciplined; how all the abilities are being who gave their lives in the cause of brutal force; we think of those red in self-sacrificing deeds for others. country, right, and God, we set their invalider Le te: England to breathe Not in a glorified selfishness in thanking willing sacrifice in a true light when we

E their last there. These men were some tied that they are safe, though their

them cut off in the very prime brethren be lost. Ah no but in perfect against the dragon and his angels.

see it as having been made in the contest of fife.

We have no conception of the self-sacrifice, even as their Lord. Think War is always terrible, but the out appalting surn. These

were the men of them as learning to fight for righteous break of my and malignity which has who were the potential fathers of unress, to help the weak, aye, maybap to go just, with lod's help, been brought Face. We know not how many amongst out God's brave young knighta-inlo to confusion was most surely of all wars The would have proved geniuses, ports, the darkness after solarone

fron miss. inspired and set on fire by hell. prophets, statesmen, scientists, and re- ed Christ on earth. Realise that and In its callous and calculated origin. formers, taken off in the midst of their your whole life must perforce grow lives.

Bobler. And realise that you will not hve to wait for the Resurrection or the

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Advent to meet them and learn alt When you die they will be waiting for you and they will tell you what is in their hearts, and you will all wait hrist's coming. Every one of them in the hands of a righteous Judge, Who cares for them more than you, and

e will do the best that can be done

Through all depths of pain and loss Sinks the plummer of His Cross, Never yet abyss was found Deager than that Cross could sound.

is led white, he averred, and can resist no longer. but France had elected to die

made motion, or do we forget Italy, which entered the lists whilst the issue was still doubtful, nar America whong only regret is that her way was not souner clear that her share in the needed therifice might have been larger. Wo ink of the armies on land, stretched

across the river basins and mountain Anges of continent, daily and hourly sposed in perit and privation, and performing deeds by the hundred any b of which was worthy of high erle bration. We think also of the forcess

in its purpose and organised destruc tiveness in the deliberate unscupulaus- sess and the world wide ramnifications of at sea, keping vigil hy day and by fraud and treachery by which its gordid sleepless night amid cold and storm and objects were pursued, there has been pirate tranchery, ever failing, never something we instinctively refer to as a trusted in vain, equal to every call.

urce beneath the human.

The Gorman bit for world power has had the aspet of an attempt of the satanic principle to enthrone itself over the aims and the life of man, The dragon its fitting emblem, creature of scales and slime, out to destroy what- ever it cannot devour, and not to br Overcome save by an effort into which elean men were ready to put their very |

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remember not less the men of the bold dangerous task of sweeping for hidden patient trawlers on their crnacless, mines; also, and not least, the hardy merchant marine, not a few of its mem- bors torpedoed again and again, but fever a man unready to sign on for a new Voyage.

We think of the heroes of the air ser- vice too, adventuring into the element least subject to the control of man, the Bo we honour to-day the niemory of the eyes of the armis, the auxiliaries of the men who loved not their lives even to fleets, on a service risky in itself at all

were not wasted. Their's were sacrificial lives" A suerifive acceptable unto God." 1 do not any that they were saints of God, as we technically describe saints; neither do claim that they were godly men or avowed Christians, though the witness of Chaplains tells us of a good den of real religion amongst the men,, many a ou who learnt to pray and loved to repent such a hymn as Jesu, lover of The questions is often asked, "Shall my soul." No, they do not claim to he wo pray for them? Thirty years ago saints but every man who offered himself if you had asked me that I should prob. the death," who gave their all, their times and in war claiming heavy toll. to redeem the oppressed, to destroy nily have replied that the basis of most. cruel armed militarism, who offered him.prayern for the dead had been no abused them but on this set day we do it public on the field or in the hospitals, where In our hearts we always honour Neither do we forget the medical service, self to rescue women and children front that they had had to be struck out of ly, explicitly, in the anered acts of many a devoted helper of the wounded cruel

wrong, suck 17 had much the Prayer Book. Since then I have lost worship, in the invoker presence of the gave his own life. There were chaplains of the spirit of Christ who came dear onea And

have learnt in Highest through Him who is the Lender too, and ather auxiliary workers, who to redeem, aut if any man, have the Christ their nrarna 20 me. and of loyal hearts and true. It is by all means risked all and surrendered all in minis spirit of God, he is of God. "As many dare not suggest that we should strike right that we should do this, that the tering to those who stood in need. In As are led of the spirit of God they are them off our prayers. Has nut Our Lord nation and empire should set apart a all ranks and in every branch there were #ll of them the Sons of God." Like to'd use anxious for nothing but inlay to express our gratitude to God Who those who loved not their life even their Mastor. they laid down their lives everything let your requests be made has given Puch power unto for their friends, for greater love, bath known unto God." Surely, then, we may lorify Him by their mouner of death, this day for every one of them It wan men tanto death." and we give God thanks no man that this that he lay down his safely let our requests be made known and to testify that we n life for his triend."

ure alive and not that they did not value life. They sato Hin concerning those who are in rejoice in the great victory will never did not want to die, those young lads Paradise waiting the full consummation. mindful of tho from whom

And let us who are separated seek to required that they should make the few monthy training, the veteran way of ours who met and bent back, after bat be worthy of the great sacrifices made surrender yet not survive to held its Prussian guard, those fathers of families

un lift the life of our results. nation to higher idents, let us bo less

whoan wiven to-day go heavy-eved hus worldly, lens selfish, more spiritual, more that we are too easily forgetful of our end kind who did their duty nobly and It belongs to the frailty of our nature high-henried, thoas on of every class

absorbed in the whirl of work and plen wore beguiled by the old romanen of nure, and take little thought of the toil war. for the anomy did the world at and blood and tears which all through Innst the service of exposing war for history have been the price of the en- what it is in its essenos, by robbing it farging herty and opportunity which of the mid glamour and depriving it në

for us.

way words entirely fail me in speaking of their heroism, martyrdom, and meri. Ber. We enn only stand to-day in nolema and reverent awe in the sight of God. It is may not be inappropriate if I say Just a few words on the life after death. There is in all men a certain instinct of fit for the great opportunities God has anelnetura, that we are api soon to be to the uttermost. It was not that they Mortality. In practically, every religion Inid upon un on a nation. Let us comfort in the world you find word for the all who mourn, and draw nearer to the A well na for the body. Bub Christ Himmelf. Who is the vanquisher that the Innb generation of death, the supreme peace-inaker. In of European people had rather lost Him we have Eternal Life and com its none of the spiritual. I believe that, munion with the living and the dead. have fallen to the auccosalvo generations. the partially saving grace of chivalry.

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