The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-11-23

THE GLASGOW COURIER
men, who many times face dea'n 70
give comfort to stricken sololers anu
live usually in the trenches with the
men, have gone unsung, but when the
great war is over the world will learn
of the glorious sacrifices the padres"
have made for the cause OF humanity.
Many chaplains among the allied
troops already have received decora-
tions for conspicuous gallantry.
A Rabbits Humane Act.
A correspondent writing from Lon
don to the Boston Transcript tells of
an incident which came to light re-
Gently in which a Jewish rabbi figured.
A British soldier was dying. He lay
in front of the trenches quite close,
but too far to reach; the Boche took
good ARE of that. The rabbi hap
pened to be in the front line trenches.
Someone told him that the lad who
lay dying in No Mans Land was a
Jew. Deaf to all protests, regardless
of almost certain death, the rabbi
crawled out over the top and among
the wire. Boche bullets tipped around
him and spat up little angry clouds
Of dust, but the padre crawled on un-
til he reached the boy. With infinite
tenderness he raised the tired head
and whispered consolation. But the
paling lips began to move and the
head to shake YEARLY, for the lad
was not a Jew, but a Catholic.
Fumbling hurriedly in his pocket,
for the time was short, the Jew pro-
duced something which he held aloft
before the fast closing eyes. A smile
broke over the soldiers face, then the
head rolled over and he lay still.
Everyone in the front line could see
quite distinctly, for it was only a few
yards to where the boy lay. His smile
meant peace-peace purchased at a
price, how great only the rabbi knew,
though the others could guess; for
CndC WHICH, Luc Jew llSlN up VII I4Su
was a little silver crucifix.
That the Boches had seen the act
was evident from the fact that the
~snipers ceased firing when the crucifix
was raised, and all was silent along
that stretch of trenches until the rab-
bi had reached the safety of the allied
trench.
Another story is recalled of an Irish
Catholic priest, told in a railway
coach by a robed Celt, who was in
England on a leave of absence from
the front.
"'Twas a praste of an Irish divi-
sion," he said. "They were next in
line to the listers at the time. That
praste was an ignorant, h~ard-heartec
ould man, and he hated all Orange.
men as if they were the divil. Many:
the tonne he preached fire and brim
stone agin 'em back before the war
T "Out yonder in the trinches he tool
) quite a fancy to a Protestant lad from
Belfast. And sure twas little wonder
for tits dead he would have been bu
6 for that same lad, who flattened hin
out in the trinch just as a shell
dropped handy.
Trhere was a day that fool of
blscy whit bombin' along with. severa
a other bhoys; brave lads they were, b
the powers, though they were Orange
men. And he whit and took a shot i
the leg ond could not get back.
q "The ould praste saw it and he wiz
- and carried him in, whin in the oil
days he would likely as not have give
- the divil his due. twas a midal the
gave him for it, and he's mighty prou
10 of it, is that ould praste-1 have
n here in my pocket"
"The Work an Education"
~ The unexcelled opportunities offere
' by the position of chaplain for givin
a churchman a broader outlook on Lii
and otherwise completing his educ;
II ton were stressed by an emaciate
- Methodist preacher who lay OF his CT
>, in a hospital back home in Englan
=, He had been wounded by a Turks
bullet at Gallipoli.
. Formerly the preacher had not bee
out of England and very little out
his W chapel. He admitted it freel
But three months on the peninsu
1r had made a new man of him, a cle'
=. thinking, direct speaking, broadmind'
no man. Physically he had suffere
rs mentally he had improved %exceedingl
ri at was an education for me-"
"a said, "and I wouldn't go back to VIII
y; I was for anything.
81 was a great deal with the Au
tralians, and they taught mi a Il
those men from down UNDER
. first I thought them a hard fightir
hard swearing, hard hearted lot
sinners. Then l got to understa
their point of view and loved the
Religion? They mostly had none,
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