PARSON AND COLONEL, TOO

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2966, 3 January 1917, Page 4

PARSON AND COLONEL, TOO

MINISTBfLW^MUKCHTO

■"I hold it is wrong to tell another man to go out and shoot without you go and do likewise." , _ In these words Licutenanfc-Uloncl 1. C. Bullock, tlio only clergyman in the ■world in command of abattahoaof troops, replied to a newspaper mane question: "Why did you join the army <is a combatant?" „ , . Lieutenant-Colonel Bullock is an American Unitarian minister, wlio is bow in England in command of one of tlio American legion battalions raised in Canada. ' , ~ » Altogether there are fire battalions of American citizens raised in Canada, and attached to the Canadian forces. In the first 825 men Tecrtuted, 2a of the « States in the Union, were represented. "These men," said Colonel v Bullock, "came voluntarily. They realised, as I did, that this was a war of pnnciplea, not of nations, and that the U.S.A< was affected by the outcome jest, as much as the Allied nations. . ; "It was a question whether the tnaUed fist ehould rule civilisation, ;or whether the principles of the Man i whose fists were nailed to the Cross should prevail. "But," said the colonel, ';the 6inking of the Lusitania was the casting of the die. I "Then I announced I hagt furled my flag, that it ehould never ajqja be Tossed by the sun nor caressed b$ the bieszes until the country which had,: been so Ion? my home had declared itself; against such a damnable outrage. !

"I then took a commission and combatant rank, and helped t<; raise a bat talion of Americans to figljt. That one battalion grew into eight,;' adaed the colonel, with a satisfied smile. Mrs. Bullock is now preaching m her husband's church in OttAwa, as thore are no olorgymen to take, his place. "In America," continue,'! tho colonel, "there is a übiquitous sips, 'Safety First' There is no more ignobla' cry unless it may be Too proud to fight, 3 as honour comes before safety. J "Righteousness and justice take pre-i cedenee when it comes bi< a question of pride and fighting." . j . The colonel, who is a; native of New, York State, is a jovial-faced, cleanehaven, keen-eyed, and iwcU-built man, who is never idle. He i>. preaching each Sunday in a Unitarian iihurch, and, besides performing his military duties, is working in the interests' of tho Venereal Diseases Committee. ! '