The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-01-28

tons have time to buckle on thei
armor. They fall by the thousands
but they take a deadly toll from the
foe. Back they fall to Brussels anO
then back to Antwerp and then on
across the line and Belgium is g
country without King and Albert
King without a country, but the
millions of French and British are
heard coming across the plains and
little Belgium has done it's duty.
But God at what cost!
Village after village mass of
ruins, home after home lying now
in ashes; palace after palace rifled
and ruined, farm lands and vine
yards devastated as though some
great cyclone had passed over them;
and everywhere fresh turned mounds
underneath which lie the heroic
dead whose only crime was that Bel
GUM stood across the great highway,
which military genius had decided
to pass. Her heroic dead strewn
upon every battlefield and a million
and a half homeless ones fled to
Holland and tens of thousands find
ing their only place of refuge across
the Channel in old England ! Every
great city stripped of her treasures
and upon each laid the strong hand
of a fuinous indemnity land then
Louvain! -.
AS long as the memory of man
shall last Louvain will rise out of
her ashes to damn militiarism and
some day to send it back into the
hell where alone it was born What
ever may be the decision of history
about the causes of the war and the
responsibility which each must bear
history will be unanimous in declar-
ing that the crime against Belgium
is the most wanton and lndefensible
in all its annals. 1t will take more
than the boosted ''Kultur" of Ger
many TO wipe out this foul blot with
which she has stained the pages of
her splendid achievements and gifts.
You will remember that it was JEFF
ferson who looked out upon the great
wrong of slavery and said. Il trem-
bic for my country when | remem-
Der that God is just" and standing
before the ruins of this fair city and
the sad wreckage of this happy land,
the German Kaiser may we'll trem-
Bile, remembering that God is just |
and that from her will be required
full requital to Belgium for every
blasted life and every wasted dollar
The world has seen MANY kings
driven from their thrones and coun-
Try by their own people. The world
has seen many kings deposed and
driven into exile or carried into slay-
cry or prison, but what king is there
who has been driven from his king
lom by a foreign foe andswho, on
foreign soil, continued to fight at
he head of his army which he man.
aged to save? But some day he
Will come back. 1t may be six
months or it may be six years but
he day will dawn when Albert will
come back xii 6 in his own fair king
lOm.
Back! back l see the German ar
MES being pressed, and ever in the
roLt that little army of heroic Bel
,ians. Back through Ostend, Lille,
Mons, Client aud through the blood
stained fields of Waterloo until upon
neir vision shall rise the towers of
Brussels with its palace waiting for
is king Behind, like swelling
1ood, gather the htrdes of refugees
'eturning-a motley, ragged, home
ess mass singing with tears in their
Eyes, for they are going home! That
title army, ragged and weather.
beaten and only a remnant of what
,nce gathered before Liege, makes
is way through the Porte de Hall,
and then enters upon that broad
and beautiful Boulevard de Water
90, On every side the crowd has
gathered as the procession marches
past The Hospital St. Pierre, then by
he Palace of Justice. wonderful still
n architecture, though marred by
he shells and bombs of the foe.
Then on to the Royal Palace, which
20 long ago he turned from with
'obs in his throat to become king
a country Every head is
and from thousands and
thousands of threats comes the cry
If welcome, but not face that is
Try of tears or a voice that is not
shaken with emotion. The face of
he king is lined deep with sorrow
and suffering The months have
burned years ont5of his life. And
here on the steps of the Palace he
Knows as home stands the queen
and the little children whose faces
le has not seen for manu- .uoako