A GREAT MIRACLE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 13 November 1918, Page 3

A GREAT MIRACLE

Sir George Adam Smith, Principal of Aberdeen University, in a speech delivered in America, said a great miracle took place in Europe during tho first two or three years of tho war—the growth ot scriplion came, and under the voluntary system, the enlistment reached 5,000,000 out of a population of 40,000,000. In moral force. "At the outbreak of the 'war the British, numbered not more than a few hundred thousands. Before conScotland, out. of a population of 4,750,0(10, we sent 900,000. In tho Island of Lewis, tho most westerly Scottish island, and'the ono nearest America, out of a total population of 30,000 they sent 0000 men. The cost of the war can be shown by the inquiries I made of an officer of the Gordon Highlanders in Aberdeen. Tlw numbers in a battalion average from 805 to 1000. I asked him how many men had been sent out to feed' these two battalions of the regiment in France in the first three years, and he told me they had sent over about 14,000 men to take tho places of those who had fallen in that regiment. The battalions had been filled seven or eight times." Sir George went on to speak of the consecration of the Frcncli, and solemnly added: "God grant that we in Britain and you ill America may be worthy of France for the valour, the faithfulness, ahd spiritual consciousness that she lias shown 1"