Here and there in the war area . tify him by this sign of Thy favourand gracious goodness towards him. The other service was the consecration ofa burial ground one summer morning. Wemotored out fairly early and found that afuneral had just taken place. A sorrowingmother still lingered there. Perhaps youll speak to her, said someone, and let her stop for the service. Shehad just arrived in time, she told me, to seeher boy die, and be able to come and see hisbody laid to its rest. 11 And it will be such a comfort and some-thing to tell them when I get back, if I cansee the place blessed where he
Here and there in the war area . tify him by this sign of Thy favourand gracious goodness towards him. The other service was the consecration ofa burial ground one summer morning. Wemotored out fairly early and found that afuneral had just taken place. A sorrowingmother still lingered there. Perhaps youll speak to her, said someone, and let her stop for the service. Shehad just arrived in time, she told me, to seeher boy die, and be able to come and see hisbody laid to its rest. 11 And it will be such a comfort and some-thing to tell them when I get back, if I cansee the place blessed where he and the othersare lying. There was a long row of graves withwreaths and little mementoes and inscriptionsabove them, and also, which touched onedeeply, another row of empty ones waitingand ready for others who were so soon to service of consecration was very simple,and there were not many to share it, allin khaki except the mother, perhaps adozen altogether. We began with O God,our help in ages past, sung as we went in. O o 2 o w Pi M Ou O > PS z uy. pa SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE 77 procession round the boundary of the ground,and then Through the night of doubt andsorrow as one hymn was not enough. Ido not think that I was the only one thatmorning who felt, as we sang Brotherclasps the hand of brother, stepping fearlessthrough the night, that the spirits of thosewhose bodies were quietly resting there werewonderfully near us, and brother very closeto brother. It is of this one is so consciouswhen talking to the men. They seem to feelin touch with those who are gone, and oftennear to them. The struggle is ours and theirs,and certain things are due to them who havefulfilled their part. For some of us that wewith them at the close of the prayer for theChurch Militant has acquired new and in-spiriting significance, and many other partsof our Communion Service also. One of the very hardest cases of bereavementI have known was quite heroically borne. Ihad to dedicate a little b
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