The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-10-31

&Ouc, 1 Hall expect 10 see him come III
with his happy smile, and greet us all as
ne was wont to do. =. Frank fought
with all the courage with which God can
grace man. Capt Irving of B. Co. had
explicit confidence in Frank And
Frank and he were very close friends,
and he feels the loss very keenly and
deeply both as friend and companion
and as a most efficient officer. Major
Mccarthy, who was Captain of B. Co.,
thought of Frank as one of his best Off
GERS. Frank was always happy and
ready to befriend his fellows. His mod
esty was an intrinsic part of him; he was
ever ready to praise anybody, but would
not listen to praise of himself but pass it
off with some happy remark"
1t is sad loss to the world to have
such a young man taken, but it is from
Just such that we expect and find our
best patriotism. How many of them
have written home from the front mes
sages that reveal that they are perfectly
aware of their danger, and yet glad that
they are where duty calls them, where
the honor of upholding the highest and
best traditions of humanity makes them
willing to pay any price! These young
men who forsook the cap and gown or
turned from peaceful pursuits and took
the khaki and the gun, who for their
country and their God are staining for
eign soil with their blood, these are they
who in the words of one of them, thank
God that He matched them with His
hour, and bade them live one glorious
day when they could make their lives
count for righteousness and for doing
His will. And what if death overtakes
them? Rupert Brooks has answered for
all of them, when he said:
"We have built house that is not for
times throwing.~
We have gained peace mistaken by pain
War knows no power. Safe shall be my
going,
Secretly armed against all Deaths en-
deavor;
Safe tho all safety's lost; safe where
men fall;
And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. -
These men have been brought face to
face with great realities; they have ex-
perienced God and Immortality as some
of us with our longer and more peaceful
contact with life have not done. One
wrote home, 'Death is the greatest event
of life and seldom is anything made of it.
What privilege then to be able to meet
it in a manner worthy of its greatness
Then thinking of his mother, he added,
'It hurts me to think of the ever growing
helplessness the mother has to bear, the
impotency to do anything, Just sit and
wait. 1t is immeasurably' harder than to
60 out and risk death or meet it as we
can."
Not for themselves, but their country
and their homes, their families their first
thought. We honor. them the more for
this; doubly dear it makes their sacrifice.
AS one wrote on learning of our young
friends death:
GLOW solemn ought to be our sense of
responsibility for what we are to make
of our lives, and of our country in the
time to come! These precious young
lives must not be sacrificed in vain.
write as one who has son over there,
who is safe as yet, but who is ready to
give his life tor his country if need be,
and try to put myself in the place of
those who are called upon to make the
supreme sacrifice. Well may we thank
God that such sons and brothers are bred
in America"
Yes, we can thank God that such were
and are. And we can leave them with
Him confident that they are safe, that
whether here or there they are still abid-
protection; and that whether they return
to US or not, they cannot be where God
IS not We see our flag dyed a deeper
red with the blood of these young heroes
and martyrs; as it takes on new sanctlty,
so rises before our eyes new visions OF
their glorified state and our hearts ex-
pand with new faith. Our sons have
taught US of God and shown us the inn
perishability of the human soul. Life
takes on new meaning; we will live it
more in the consciousness of the unseen;
we will try to make ourselves worthy OF
their example and presence.
"No longer on their ears
The bugle's summons falls;
Beyond these tangled spheres
The ArchangePs trumpet calls;
And by that trumpet led
Far up the exalted sky
The Army of the Dead
Goes by, and still goes by
Look upward standing mute; Salute?