The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-08
Eloquent Tribute Is Paid
to Tulsa's Dead Overseas

his houa In Illinois. lie would some
day bc back on the farm helping his
old father and his brother. He WIS
pale and Blckly and his stomach was
I'm such weakened condition mat h"
could not cat much. II was gala
day whom he could cat the pourish b.
ing food which the nurse prepared
for him.
flls sigtor has since written to mo
saying that hor brother WAS not n
notlceably religious man, but that he
had always bccn good man. find
It difficult to understand people who
say that they are not religious.
From my experience during the last
year should Say that almost every
body is religious. ana that about 80
per cent OF ones life is supplied by
religion This soldier OF whom I am
now speaking used 10 look forward
To tho Ch1plain's visit He wished TO
receive the holy communion each
sunday morning, and never likcd to
havo me leave him at uiPht without
"a prayer. II can sleep better.' no
said. one afternoon when he had
been having troubled day he asked
me 10 be sure Ia come at night and
say an evening prayer. For many
weeks he lay patiently on his bed.
Now ana again no would DO moved
20 other parts OF the ward. whore
from his bed he could look out over
the sea. lie never complained. lie
wished no could SEQ tho things the
other soldiers were eating lie
wished ne could see some OF his
family at home. IIc wished the
wounds would heal 80 that he could
bo put on tho ship which some day
would sail for America. '"Thoy would
come clear to New York To meet
me" ne said. THE surgeon snys that
I've got 20 have another operation. I.
| wonder II 1 could not have II at
home"
1'hen one day he had "A setback: (:
his wounds took too much OF his
strength, and pneumonia came and
swept him away on the last night
he WIS alive he was brave and cheer
ful llc gave me three letters which
had come from homo and asked me
To read them over and 10 toll the
family all about him. And then, as
| rose up to go, he said: Don't
leave mc, chaplain. | want you to
stay with me-" And 80 sat by his
side until he fell asleep. II was at
noon tho next day that he passed
away llo smiled in gentle way
that was characteristic of him, na
knelt by his cot, and he slipped into
unconsCiOusnoss as I read the prayer
which commended HIS soul TO his
faithful Creator. over there In the
English cemetery his body lies with
other American soldiers ON the
slope OF n hill. part OF the rolling
land which bounds the channel, In
his grave. II will grow with grass
like the fields OF his native state.
And over Che moor rumbles the sea
like the thunder OF the battle IN
which Herman Bruins received his
five wounds lie bore In his body,
did nc not. the marks OF the Lord
Jcsus2 Yes. and he was Christ-like q
In character.
Sergeant Wilson.
Sergeant Wilson belonged to the
9th Engineers and was only II years
old He was auburn haired, his
checks were pink, his face was boy
ish and care-frce. With boy-likc
impctuosity he had enlisted In the
army. and with boy-like bravery he
bullet had passed through his lcft
shoulder, inflicting n dangerou,
wound. lIia right leg also had beer
fractured. YOU would not have sus
pected, however, that he had beer
wounded at all. II you could MOI
have seen his shoulder. His cheer,
fulncss was communicative, and
around his he'd the crippled soldiers