The Church in the Furnace - Essays by Seventeen Temporary Church of England Chaplains on Active Service in France and Flanders #266515

"For the proudly guarded lips,<br>Streets where men nor strive nor cry,<br>For the armies and the ships,<br>Youth and laughing chivalry.<br>For the things that shall be won,<br>Clean and splendid from the flame,<br>For the brave new life begun,<br>Blessed be Thy holy Name!<br><br>They shall see who are unborn,<br>That remote, resplendent thing,<br>Of the which, forespent and torn,<br>All the world is travailing.<br>Lift your hearts above the years,<br>Thank our Lord not once or twice,<br>For the horror and the tears,<br>Bitterness and sacrifice." - J. S.<br><br>"War will only be overcome when a moral substitute has been provided for it which will absorb all its qualities of strenuousness, indignation at wrong, indifference to property and life; for, to the end, justice and freedom can be defended only by the courage, devotion, and self-sacrifice which fear not them that kill the body and after that have no more that they can do." - John Oman.<br><br>"Romance, that was<br>The coloured air of a forgotten cause<br>About the heads of heroes dead and bright,<br>Shines home: we are accompanied with light<br>Because of youth among us; and the name<br>Of man is touched with an ethereal flame:<br>There is a newness in the world begun,<br>A difference in the setting of the sun.<br>Oh, though we stumble in blinding tears, and though<br>The beating of our hearts may never know<br>Absence in pangs more desolately keen,<br>Yet blessed are our eyes, because they have seen." Laurence Binyon.