There was beauty and a fine simplicity in the address
which Mr. Baldwin gave at the opening of the Harrow War .Memorial on Thursday, June 3rd. He spoke of social service. The boy- of '1026 who asks himself" What shall I do with my .life ? asks himself a question which is different in intensity- and setting from the question which boys about to serve in the War put to themselves, but, in .essence ..it is the same, question, ..14 Baldwin brought the two _periods together by. quoting the words of oeirates., when he left the Court under _sentence. of death—" And now the time is- come for us to -go our ways ;. I to death and you to life, -but which of us bath the better lot is known to none but God." " Death. is easy and life is very hard," Mr. Baldwin, affirmed,. and he :went on to predict that life would. indeed -be found hard by. those now entering upon manhood provided —and he took that for granted—that the boys to whom ho• was speaking -meant to play their part in the world. The question of those who died in the War. was, "Have we died in vain ? " "I have got to give an answer," he declared, "and you will have to give an answer."
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