A QUAKER INSCRIPTION.
THE thought of the gallant band of Friends who have, 1 already laid down their lives for their country, and the warning that we should begin to consider how to ensure that the inscriptions on our war memorials shall be worthy of the deeds they commemorate, have moved us to offer to our readers thee following draft of an epitaph for a monument dedicated to. our .Quaker soldiers.
Let a block of granite, noble in its proportions. but rough' hewn, stand on some wind-swept down or amid a grove of oaks, and let it hear on it these words :—
To THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE •MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS, NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND -PRIVATE SOLDIERS, MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, WHO IN FLANDERS, FRANCE, AND AT THE DARDANELLES, -OBEYING THE INNER Lnair, DIED ni DEFENCE OF THEIR COUNTRY AND HER Cause.
THEY LOVED PEACE, BUT THEY LOVED ENGLAND MORE.
THEIR BODIES LIE IN FLEMISH EARTH OR BY THE WATERS OF THE AEGEAN. THEIR NAMES HERE RECORDED STAND TO TROVE TO GENERATIONS YET UNBORN
"How STRANGELY HIGH ENDEAVOUR-MAY BE BLEST, WHEN PIETY AND VALOUR JOINTLY GO."
[Here should follow the names of the soldier Friends, the places Where they lived (as "of Bristol" or "of Derby "),'the places where,. they died, the regiments or corps to which they - belonged, and their. ranIherein.]
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