OUR BRAVE DEAD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 13 November 1918, Page 6

OUR BRAVE DEAD

I MOKE THAN CONQUERORS.

In a sermon recently preached in I Westminster Abbey the Archbishop ot Dublin (Dr. Bernard) said: there is a message in the Christian Gospel, which can bring peace, overjoy, to sad hearts. Largo part, of the trouble and the anguish of the present hour comes from tho thought of the tens of thousands pf young lives cut short,, young lives in whose future the .liopps. of many homes were centred. And is this the end of nil our lovo and enre and striving, that .they have passed into nothingness, into the'darkness of night? 'Never! This is not the.end. The Cross'was not the end. Death is never the end. It _is onlyi the beginning. It is the beginning of that larger life .which awaits the Christinn «ral— a life of which we know but little, a life'which will.eertainly be full of. surprises, but a larger life, with opportunities of service and work beyond our dreams. This is the life into winch many, many splendid young men have entered gladly, joyfully—in these last tremendous-years. There is a fine elegy wliicli has come down to us from the davs of ISlizabeth. I will read you a verso. It is from Raleigh's poem 011 the death in ba-ttio of Sir Pliilin Sidney, then 'still a young man.

"What.hath he lost'that such Ereat Rraco hath won?. Youutr rears for endleßS years, and hope unsure Of fortune'? gifts for wealth that still nhall dure. O happy race, with so e:reat nraiscfi mil I"

That is it. That is Hie Christian hope, the Christian certitude. The liws is less than the gain. ' They, with nil the faithful departed, are more than conquerors. Anchor yonr souls on tms thought, brethren in Christ. So will you seo the glory of the Resurrection even through a mist of tears. Let, us say St. Paul's. brave words to ourselves wain. "In all these things wc uro more than conquerors tlironfjh him that loved us. For lam persuaded that neither death, nor lifo, nor aiirels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor thin.?? present. nor things'to come, nor heijrht. nor dentil, nor any other creature, shall be <\ble to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ .Tesus our Lord."