THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1918, Page 5

THE DEAD WHO LIVE FOR EVER.

Here is a tribnte paid by the PrlnA Minister of Britain to those who havet; died in the war: , -"S

" There are hundreds of thousands of ; sorrowing men and women in tfyis land : on account of the war. Their aujjjiiah'' in too deep to be expressed or to be com» forted by words, but, judging the-multf' , toude whom T know not by those I do ■ know, there is not a single one of theja wlio would recall the valiant dead'to life at the expense of their country's , honor. The example of these'brave mefi who have fallen hue enriched the life awl , ejcaltod the purpose of all. You cannot' have four millions of men in any land-1 who voluntarily sacrifice everything theworld can offer them in obedlenqo to a . higher call witliout ennobling the country-> from which they sprang. "The fallen, whilst they have iliu« mined with a fresh lustre the glory of thoir native land, have touched with a . new dignity the household which they» left for the battlefield. Thei;o will be millions who will come back and live to (ell children now unborn how a genera-, tion 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, tor* ture and' death to win protection for the weak and justice for the oppressed. • i " Thlrc are hundreds of thousands who will never come back. For them then*' will be for ages to come sacred memories in a myriad of homes of bravo, chivalrous ' men who gave up tlmir yomigjivwfor. justice, for right, for freedom in peril, t " This resolution means that the greet- ; eRt Empire 011 earth through this House ■ thanks the living for the readiness With 1 which they supported its behest. It aUd means that this j;reat Empire, through this House, enters each home of the heroic dead, grasps the bereaved by the hand, and says: 'The Empire owes you gratitude for your share uf the sacrifice,' as well as for theirs, p.irtakes in your pride for their v;i!ur and in your i*rief for their loss.'"