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...more religion must take on the form of service,--the giving of a cup of cold water, which in this case means hot coffee. I think of a typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel...
...When the Canadians stormed over the top of certain famous ridge, and the battlefield was full of needy, suffering men, a Y. M. C. A. secretary appeared serving out hot coffee on the ridge within half an hour after it was stormed, before the line was yet consolidated. 'Everybody else was lying flat in that rain of bullets," one of the officers said, 'Everybody except just that secretary; and the sight of him standing alone, forgetting everything except the men he was risking his life to help is what gave religion...
...enjoyed the distinction of being the first yet shown Mr. Baker in which the lately revised American company organization has been used not merely for the call of the roster and for close-order drill but also as basis for the deployment and actual tactics of troops on the battlefield. The Harvard Regiment continues, and it continues progressive. --Boston Transcript...
Only let those who are drafted to remain remember this: As those who serve on the battlefield or in the fleet will do their work faithfully and well to their utmost so they who serve in keeping alive our heritage of knowledge must do their work faithfully and well. They are stewards to serve in place of the brave young men who have gone. From that responsibility, from that draft, there is no exemption...
More probably the explanation of this ready appreciation of an unfamiliar tongue is in the nature of the subject and the lecturer. Bravery speaks in every language with but one speech. French of Paris may be to us unknown, but the French of the battlefield, of Verdun and Vimy Ridge, is a tongue we may all talk, and understand...