THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1782, 29 January 1918, Page 4

THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER.

Here is a tribute paid by the Prime Minister of Britain to tho.se who have died in (be war:— “There arc hundreds of thousands of sorrowing men and women in (hjs land on account of the war. Their anguish is too deej) to he expressed or to be comforted by words, but, judging the multitude whom I know not by tiiose I do not know, there is not a single one of them who would recall the valiant dead to life at the expense of their country’s dishonour. The example of these brave men who have fallen has enriched the life and exalted the purpose of all. You cannot have four millions of men in any land who voluntarily sacrifice everything the world can offer them in obedience to a higher call without ennobling the country from which they sprang. “The fallen, whilst they have illumined with a fresh lustre the glory of their native land, have touched with a new dignity the household winch they left for the battlefield. There' will be millions who will come back and live to fyfl children now unborn a generation before in England, Scotland, Ireland and "Wales, in the ends of the earth, the men of our race were willing to leave ease and comfort to face privation, torture and death to win protection for the weak and justice for the oppressed.

“There are thousands who will never come hack. For them there will be for ages to come sacred memories in a myriad of homes of brave, chivalrous men who gave up their young lives for justice, for right, for freedom in peril. “This resolution means that the greatest Empire on earth through this House thanks the living for the readiness with which they support* cd its behest. It also means that this great Empire, through this House, enters each home of the heroic dead, grasps the bereaved by the hand, and says t ‘The Empire owes you gratitude for your share of the sacrifice, as well as for theirs, partakes in your pride for their valour and in your grief for their loss.’ ”