SELF-SACRIFICE.
Say what men v;i!!, there is something more truiv Chris'h-'n m man, who gives he- time, "his strength, his life, if need be, fur something not "himself,whether he call it his queen, his country, or his colors, than in"all the asceticisms, the fasts, the humiliations, and cotillions winch have ever beui made ; imi '.hi- spirit o:_gi, ; n;; one's life, without calling it a sacrifice, is
found nowhere so tro.y as in Luglaud.— Florence- Nightingale.
In rural England it was once a custom to strew tho path from the houses of the bridal couple, of the church with herbs, flowers, ami rushes.
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Evening Star, Issue 16088, 13 April 1916, Page 3
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102SELF-SACRIFICE. Evening Star, Issue 16088, 13 April 1916, Page 3
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