REAPERS AND HARVEST.

Mataura Ensign, 13 January 1916, Page 3

REAPERS AND HARVEST.

Here is a vivid statement of bow the tragedy of Kurope looks to the loaderwriter of 'Tin'' Province,' published' Jn Vancouver, British Columbia:— '-Stormin«r across the fields of Franco and Flanders they come —the reapers of the harvest. "(irimly, heavily floundering tlii'«>n«xli the muddy plains'and marshes of Russia they come—the reapers of the harvest. "Clinging to tlic ridges* of the mountains, scaling tin- cliffs of the Austrian Alps—the sons of Italy come to the reaping of the harvest. ', "Battering toot by foot their road through the Dardanelles, toiling painfully over the burning sands ot Meso|)otamia. men from Australia, A'cu' Zealand. Canada, India, France, Britain, Italy—they come to the reaping of the harvest. ••(inhering among the mountain fastnesses, gazing down upon the waters of the Danube, the men of the .Balkans wait for the word which will send them forth—reapers of the barvest. "For the seed sown N months ago has ripened. From the marshes of the Pripet to the North Sea, from the Baltic, to file Mediterranean, through the short bicak 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 tin- reapers. ••My the blood of the slaughtered martyrs of Belgium, by the wrung and tortured soul of France, by the devastated fields and blackened ruins of Poland, bv the cholera-stricken villages of Serbhi, by the red haloeausf of ArmenTa, V the watery grave of the innocents who perished on. the Lusitania—the harvest litis ruacht-'d. fruition. " -The Day' has arrired--"The reapers are tit hand. "And as • they c-ouie the earth resounds with their tread, and the vaults of heaven echo their cry:--v " 'As ye have sown so shall ye reap.' "