The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-07

last words. She had been told tina
she would be called at 5 o'clock.
Al six they came and the black var
conveyed her and the architect Baucr
70 the Tir National, where they wert
snot Miss Cavel was brave and calm
az the last, n she died facing tn,
Ilflng squad, another martyr in the ole
cause Of human liberty.
Mr.: Gahan later gave out this report
OF his last hours with her:
Monday evening, Oct. il, l was
aumited by special passport from the
1ernah authorities to the prison O
St' Giles where Miss Edith CavelI had
been eon{!hed for 10 weeks. The fina
teTnoon. ~ -
To my establishment and relief
FOUND my friend perfectly calm and
resigned. But this could not lessen the
tenderness and intensity Of feeling or
either part during that last interview
or almost an hour.
Her first words to me were upon
2 matter concerning herself personally,
but the solemn asseveration which &C
companied them was made expressedly
~ the light Of God and eternity. She
then added that she wished all her
irlends to know that she willingly gave
her life for her country, and said: 4
have no fear nor shrinking; l have
seen death so often that It is not
strange or fearful to me She further
said: | thank God for this ten weeks
quiet before the end. Life has always
been hurried and fun Of difficulty. This
1lme OF rest has been a great mercy.
,Ihey have all been very kind to me
here. But this l would say, standing
as l do in view OF God and eternity,
realize that patriotism is not enough.
must have no hatred or bitterness
toward anyone
EtNNFn n,Anzl - A. w.
together, and she received the gospel
message of consolation with all her
heart At the close of the little SER
vice l began to repeat the words, Abide
with me- and she Joined softly in the
We sat quietly talking until it was
I'M for me to 60. She gave me part
ing messages for relations and friends.
She spoke of her souls needs at the
moment and she received the assurance
can do.
Then I said Goodbye, and she
smiled and said: We shall meet again. >
with her at the end and afterwards
gave her Christian burial.
He told me: She was brave and
bright to the last. She professed her
Christian faith and that she was glad
to die for her country. She died like
a heroine III. Stirling T. Gahan,
British Chaplain, Brussels"
In the touching report there is a
statement, one of the last that Edith
Cavell ever made, which in its exquisite
pathos Eliminates the whole of that
life of stern duty. of human service
and martyrdom. She said that she was
grateful for the six weeks of rest she
had just before the end. During those
weeks she had read and reflected; her
companions and her solace were her
Bible, her prayer book and the Imita-
ton of Christ. The notes che made in
these books reveal her thoughts in that
time, and will touch the uttermost
depths Of any nature nourished in that
beautiful faith which is at once so
tender and so asture. The prayer book
with those laconic entries on its fly
leaf in which she set down the sad
and eloquent chronology of her fate,
the copy of the Imitation which she
had read and marked during those
weeks in prison, weeks which as she
so pathetically said had given her rest
and quiet and time to think in a life
that had been 80 hurried" and the
passages noted in her firm hand, have
a deep and appealing pathos.