PRIESTS IN THE FIRING LINE.
The concluding sentences of the last j letter of the dying Abbe Duroy to his j friend (Abbe Rene Gaell) provide a line illustration of the .splendid (spirit oi .Prance's priest-soldiers:—-••I miifit leave yon, dear old Friend. The thought of you and oi all those Whom 1 love softens my sad hours. Ahirse vour wounded men with tenderness.' To .sow sweet charity in their hearts is to prepare a harvest of laith We have never been such apostles, such teachers oi the Gospel. And. going about as you are, or lying down as 1 am, living 01 dead, the priest iff this war dominates the soldier as religion .lo.ninates the country. But has not •Providence given us some splendid hours? Don't believe in the sadness ot which 1 spoke. lam JoyjnJ.- • • • ' love mv lot. I owe all that! hnow ..bout the war-its penis and its pains _th it ft would be lar finer to die oi one's wounds than to die stupidly ... one's bed. carried off hy teyer or Pneumonia. Adieu, my good friend. Wnto to me soon, if vou can. 1 have serious reasons for wishing your answer to ittich me quickly.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 9
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198PRIESTS IN THE FIRING LINE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 9
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