THE REAPERS AND THE HARVEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 28, 8 January 1916, Page 2

THE REAPERS AND THE HARVEST.

(Here is a vivid statement of how the tragedy of Europe looks to the leader writer of “'ldm Province,” published in \ ancouver, British Columbia.)

“Storming 'across the fields of France and Flanders they come—the reapers of the harvest, “Grimly, heavily, floundering through the muddy plains and marshes of Russia they come—the reapers of th© harvest.

“Clinging to the i ridges of the mountains, scaling the cliffs °1 the Austrian Alps—the sons of Italy come to the reaping of the harvest. “Battering foot hy foot their road through the Dardanelles, toiling painfully over the burning sands of .Mesopotamia, men from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, France, Britain, Italy—come to the reaping of the harvest.

“Gathering among their mountain fastnesses, gazing down upon the waters of the Danube, the ■ men ol the Balkans wait for the word which will send them forth—reapers of the harvest.

“For the seed.sown 14 months ago has ripened. From the marshes of the Pripet to the North Sea, from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, through the short .bleak days of winter, through the softening winds and rains of spring, through the long hot days of summer, the crop has grown to maturity—and now the autumn is here and the harvest is ready for the

reapers. “By the Mood of the slaughtered martyrs of Belgium, by the wrung and tortured sou! of France, by the devastated fields and blackened ruins of Poland, by the cholera-stricken villages of Serbia, by the red holocaust of Armenia, by the watery grave of the innocents who perished on the, Lusitania —the harvest has reached fruition. “ ‘The Day’ has arrived—- “ The reapers are at hand. “And as they come the earth resounds, 'with their tread, and the vaults of heaven echo their cry;— “ ‘As ye have sown so shall ye reap.’ ”