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‘and of his modesty in victéry, I am/filled with an emotion ‘3 I cannot express. He helongs to history as furnishing one of Pe greatest examples of successful and disinterested patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of futurg generations ~~ in the principles of liberty and right. He belongs fo the present, r- to us, by his glory, by his virtues, and. by achievements. The memorials of character wrought by him can never be dimmed. He needs no statues or monuments; he has stamped himself in blazing flames upon the souls of his countrymen; he has carved ‘own monument in the memory of his compatriots. The military code which he perpetuates has come down to us the highest moral laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. will uplift everyone who comes under its influence. The soldier f §=above all other. men is required to perform the highest act fof religious teaching—sacrifice. IN BATTLE AND IN THE THOSE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES WHICH HIS MAKER GAVE WHEN HE CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IM- will alone sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may. be, the soldier who is called upon to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind. . On such an occasion as this my thoughts go back to those men who went with us to their last charge. In memory’s eye I can see them now forming grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain of the foxhole, driving home to their objective and to the Judgment Seat of God. I do not know the dignity of their birth, but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, ncomplaining with faith in their hearts, and on their lips he hope that we would go on to victory. soggy packs on many a weary march from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn. Never again will they struggle ankle-deep through the mud:on the shell-shocked roads. Never. again will they stop cursing their luck long enough to whistle through chapped lips a few bars as some clear voice raised the lilt of Madelon. Never again ghastly trenches with their maze of tunnels, drifts, pits, dugouts; never again gentlemen unafraid. part of that beautiful thing we call the Spirit of the Unknown Soldier. In chambered temples of silence the dust of their daunt- less valor sleeps, waiting, waiting in the chancery of heaven the final reckoning of Judgment Day. ONLY THOSE ARE FIT TO LIVE WHO ARE NOT AFRAID TO DIE. 4 Our country is rich and resourceful, populous and pro- %.“*gressive, courageous to the full extent of propriety. It insists + upon respect for its rights and likewise gives full recognition cs his own statue in the hearts of his people; he has built his . from even the age of knighthood and chivalry. It embraces . Its requirements are for the things that are right and its” restraints are from the things that are wrong. Its observance. - FACE OF DANGER AND DEATH, HE DISCLOSES. .. AGE. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take. the place of the Divine annunciation and spiritual uplift which . “Never again for them staggering columns bending under They have gone beyond the mists that blind us here and become .