The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-29


wounds or assauge the grief Of those
who have lost their dear ones in the
war, but they should be a comfort
Life is not measured by years but by
achievement; not by how long it liz
lived but by the way in which 1t Is
lived. Your dead lived nobly and died
heroically. The sentiment of young
Lieutenant Dinsmore Ely in a letter
TO his father a few days before his
death expressed what l feel. "If
anything should happen to me. lets
have no mourning in spirit or in dress.
Like a liberty bond. il is an invest
ment, not a loss, when a man dies Tor
his country. 1t is an honor to family
and is that the time for weeping?
would rather leave my family rich in
pleasant memories OF my life than
numhed in sorrow at my death"
May grace be given you TO say with
Habherton Lulham;
''Ye who in sorrows tents abide,
Mourning your dead with hidden
tears,
Bethink ye what a wealth OF pride
They've won you for the coming
years.
Crievous the pain: but. In the day
When all the cost is counted Ger.
Would 1t be best that ye should say:
war;
Who knows? But proud then shall We
stand
That best. most houored boast to
make:
My lover died for his dear land
or, Ny son fell for EnglaHds sake
Christlike they died that we might
Fl,p..F
And our redeemed lives would we.
bring,
With aught that gratitude may give
To serve you In your sorrowns
And never a pathway shall We tread.
No foot OF seashore, hill or lea.
But we may think: The dead, my
dead.
Gave this, a sacred gift, to me
End OF the Exile and the Armistice.
Reverting to the psalm in which the
text occurs, 1t Is noted that the resto-
ration of Israel from exile In Babylon
was a marvel 50 astonishing that it
could hardly be believed. We were
like them that dream" 1t evoked the
most joyous thanksgiving and even
the heather recognized the greatness
of Jehovah's favor to his people.
Then was our mouth filled with laugh
ter ana our IpHE Win SlH& l3lE AHFh
said they among the heather; THE
Lord hath done great things for them"
! \ strange note is struck In verses SO
The sequel to the return had been dis
appointing The restored community
prayed that God would carry on and
complete the work He had so glo-
riously begun, The verses imply "A
background OF disappointed hopes and
anxious struggles. Peace has come be-
fore anyone cognizant OF the military
situation in July would have predicted
No military authority among the allies
set hope upon 20 complete and early a
victory cod stretched forth his hand
and the carnage ceased. With the
American army in France Edwin =.
James cabled November II; They
stopped hghtinG at II o'clock this
morning In twtnkiins of the eye
four wears killing and m assa c q
stopped as II God had swept His ON
nipotent finger across the scene OF
world carnage and cried enough. 1t
was more wonderful province than
the return Of the Israelites from Raby~
Ion, Now for the sequel of the armis-
tice. The aftermath calls for prayer
! that God will complete His work. The
extles prosecuted their efforts to re-
| establish the nation in the midst of
hindrances and anxieties. We join in
their petition. Restore our fortunes,
/
We view with surprise, II not disap-
prevail. the unprecedented and unneces-
sary absence of our president from
the country during the sessions of
congress We lament his unwilling
ness or inability to find able men in
our great country who could approx
mately and adequately represent the
president and the American people We
devontly hope that the wisdom OF his
course may he clearer afterwards than
! is now apparent
Again. misgivings may be enter
| taincd OF any Interpretation of theories
q bout 'the freedom of the seas" that
! would deprive Great Britain of her
81 premacy on the water. God be
praised that .Rrtania rules the
waves" Fer navy, from one view
point won the war. 1t swept the seas
clear or enemy commerce: II b'ockaded
German ana Turkish and Austrian
ports; II transported sixty -four per
cent OF cuv forces across the Atlantic;
and il continued for nearly four years
to he tire one impregnabie barrier be-
tween Germany and victory. Whatever
happened on land Germany could not
tress of the water.
| Dramatic Episode.
| The episode Of the surrender OF the
German deet was intensely dramatic.