CHAPTER V. 1. Ambassador Brand Whitlock served Ameri ca and the world. 2. Nurse Edith Cavell's last words. 3. The Prussian (Assyrian) never can understand Anglo-Saxons. 4. A hospital sample of their poison gas "Kultur." 5. More leisure for clear thinking at the Front. 6. Like Topsy, has the world just happened? 7. How we grew to hate beautiful moonlight nights at the Front. 8. The souls of the stoutest men in America will quake in the years coming. 9. Has the Creator a business plan for America and the world? 10. Are we running on schedule time to His plan? 11. Why I keep my hair short and join the Navy League. 12. Israel mentioned in prophetic despatches 2,543 times. 13. The Bible indictment of the shepherds or ministers of God's flock. 14. Man is naturally a religious animal. 15. Every date in the Bible checks with astronomical time. 16. The law Moses gave the American section of Israel. 17. America and Britain fulfilling Moses' prophecies literally. 18. Our enemies open and secret have been found liars as was promised by the inspired prophets of old. 19. Manasseh, "Forgetfulness" is America's tribal name. Are they living up to it? CHAPTER V. One of the most pathetic statements ever made fell from the lips of Nurse Edith Cavell under sentence of death in a German prison. She was so thankful for those ten weeks she was in jail, for the quiet, and the time to think and rest. Life had been so hurried. She expressed truly what most mortals feel as we gallop with rush and bustle through this hurried life of striving and strife. And all for what? The following report was made by the British chaplain, H. Sterling Gohan, to Mr. Brand Whitlock, the United States Ambassador who served America and the whole civilized world so well, during the war years at Brussels. A charming man with the most winsome of manners, he secured many favors from Germany, due to his personality. I had met him first when he was giving Toledo, Ohio, good government as its mayor and again after the Armistice when I was welcomed in his sanctum at Brussels; and I succeeded for an hour in chasing some of the brain fag from a very, very tired war-worn American public servant, who held on to his job amidst discouragements that would have daunted most people. Report of Edith Cavell's Execution by Germany Made to United States Ambassador "On Monday evening, the 11th of October, I was admitted by special passport from the German authorities, to the prison of St. Giles where Miss Edith Cavell had been confined for ten weeks. The final sentence of Death had been given that afternoon. "To my astonishment and relief, I found my friend perfectly calm and resigned, but this could not lessen the tenderness and intensity of feeling on either part during the last interview of almost an hour. "Her first words to me were upon a matter concerning herself personally, but the solemn asseveration which accompanied them was made expressly in the light of God and Eternity. She then added that she wished all her friends to know that she willingly gave her life for her country, and said, ‘I have no fear nor shrinking: I have seen Death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.' She further said 'I thank God for this ten weeks quiet before the end. Life has always been so hurried and full of difficulty. This time of rest has been a great mercy. They have all been kind to me here, but I would say, standing in the view of God and Eternity, I realize that Patriotism is not enough. . . I must have no hatred towards any one.' "We partook of the Holy Communion together and she received the Gospel message of consolation Iwith all her heart. At the close of the little service I began to repeat the words 'Abide with me' and she joined softly in the end. We sat quietly talking until it was time for her to go. She gave me parting messages for relatives and friends. She spoke of her soul's need at the moment and she received the assurance of God's words as only a Christian can do. Then I said 'Good-bye,' and she smiled and said, 'We shall meet again!' "The German Military Chaplain was with her at the end and afterwards gave her Christian burial. He told me: 'She was brave and bright to the last. She professed her Christian Faith and that she was glad to die for her country. She died like a hero.' H. STERLING GOHAN, British Chaplain, Brussels. Thus died a quiet, thoughtful, unemotional English heroine, a martyr to duty, a martyr to Germany's system of frightfulness. Could Assyrian Germany ever understand our AngloSaxon breed, they never would have shot a nurse, a woman who had nursed their own soldiers as well as Belgians, French and British. Her death caused more men to enlist against such brutality all over Christendom, than any single appeal made to the hearts of white men. There are thousands who look back upon the years spent in those semi-jails in France and Belgium, dugouts, saps, trenches, and billets, with the A.E.F., B.E.F., and C.E.F., who, like Nurse Cavell, were most thankful for the chance it gave them to rest and get their thoughts up to date. With Death looking for you or your friends from any and all points of the compass, from above and below, from in front and behind, we still had thousands of opportunities, more than ever came to us in our business at home, to calmly think and wonder over the riddle of this universe. What was the meaning of this stupendous war |