Let us…pray for those who are still holding the firing lie on the field of battle. Remember that, even at this moment, while I am speaking to you, some of them are in the agony of death. The prospect of eternity stretches out before them.
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“Our soldiers are our masters,” wrote a French Academician yesterday, “they are our leaders, our teachers, our judges, our supporters, our true friends; let us be worthy of them, let us imitate them, so that we may not do less than our duty; they are always ready to do more than their own.”
21st July 1916. ‘For our soldiers! Address given by His Eminence Cardinal Mercier on the day of the National Fete, July 21st, 1916, at Sainte Gudule, Brussels’. [SPEC S/D525 (P.C. 168)]. This week’s war: 103.
