DYING FOR THE RIGHT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 6

DYING FOR THE RIGHT

—fr- , A STIRRING ADDRESS. Tho "Petit Parisien" gives an account of an impressive ceremony at the burial of ten British soldiers at Hazebrouck. A procession was headed by the Abbe Lomire, the district member of the Chamber of Deputies, the Mayor of Hazebrouck, and the Protestant clergyman. The Abbe Lemire delivered an address in which he paid a warm tribute to the British soldiers. "Why," he asked, "have they left everything, abandoned everything, sacrificed everything? Why do they descend upon our coasts every day like a wave that nothing can stay? Why are they standing by- our sides araied for battle, calm, interpid, gay, and singing? Because they are the champions of right. Right has been violated; the liberty of the nations has been endangered on the Continent. Treaties - which bore their signatures have been torn up. They rose and said, 'No!' and there they lie for that cause. "You, monsieur, the pastor of the Protestant Church, and the Catholic priest in our old Latin liturgy, each respecting freedom of conscience, have successively.read over their bodies prayors which comfort and consolo. May your God, who is ours, hear them. May the God of duty and uf right watch over their mortal remains. May He receive their souls, and give them tho reward due when one has been, faithful to duty and right. "Eternal repose for you. - We believe in the immortality of tho soul and unfailing Divine justice."