WAR MEMORIALS.
(TO THE EDITOR OF VIE " SPECTATOR."I
Cliftonians are justly proud of the lines of Sir Henry
isIewbolt which you quote—" Qui pseud hind, aio. Still.
this does not allow one to shut one's eyes to the fact that Mr. Temple, in one of his Repton sermons, has the truth on his side when he gives the preference to the concluding lines of another school memorial :- "But, oh ! lest glory stoop to pride, May we remember, when we pray, The noblest death was His who died Nee miles, nee pro patria."
There never was a time, perhaps, when we more needed to be
reminded of this fact.—I am, Sir, &c., Forces. STAIR DOUGLAS.
[But is it a fact ? Did not our Lord Himself fight the good fight and lay down Ilia life, just as does the soldier who dies that his country and his fellow-countrymen may live? He resisted evil to the death. It is surely a great error to talk as if only the combatant with his hands could be called a soldier. —En. Spectator.]
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