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They've left sons behind them, many of the laddies that died to save us. Aye, there's weans in Britain and America, and in many another land, that will ne'er know a faither. We owe something to those weans whose faithers deed for this world's salvation. We owe it to them and to their faithers tae see that they have a better world to grow up in than we and their faithers knew.
I knew what it was like, over yonder in France, and I could tell American faithers and mithers what their boys maun see and do when the great transports took them oversea. It was for me, to whom folk would listen, tae tell the truth as I'd seen it. It was no propaganda I was engaged in there was nae need o' propaganda. The truth was enow. Whiles, I'll be telling you, I found trouble.
We took too little thought of God. Religion was a failing force in the world. Hame ties were loosening; we'd no the appreciation of what hame meant that our faithers had had. Not all of us, maybe, but too many.
But atween him an' ma mither he aye kent fine when to stop. "An' a' oor faithers tasted afore they gaed to bed, an' they a' dee'd wi' their faces to the licht; an' I wadna gie ane o' them for a wheen o' yir temperance haverers wi' their dog talks on the Sabbath day." "I second that," said Ronald M'Gregor.
"O ye slaves! ye base loun-hearted beasts o' burden! hoo lang will ye boo before the hand that strikes ye, or kiss the foot that tramples on ye? Throw doun the provisions, and gang hame and bring what they better deserve; for, if ye will gie them bread, feed them on the point o' yer faithers' spears."
"Sir," said John, addressing Claverhouse, "I'm neither knave nor rebel I hae lifted up my voice to the God o' my faithers, according to my conscience; and, unworthy as I am o' the least o' His benefits, for threescore years and ten he has been my shepherd and deliverer, and, if it be good in His sight, He will deliver me now.
I'm thinking that I'll open the eyes o' the Royal Edinburgh Entomological General Natural History Exchange Society when I get back again after my journeys. But " The speaker here paused in his enthusiasm, remarking seriously, "I'm thinking there's other matters o' mair importance before us the noo than moths. Your faithers went doon the Athabasca, you said?" "Yes; in a canoe," said Bob.
"Weel, Madge," inquired they, "and, since ye are come, for what hae ye brought us here?" "To try," added she, "whether, inheriting, as ye do, yer faithers' bluid, ye also inherit their spirit to see whether ye hae the manhood to break the yoke o' yer oppressors, or if ye hae the courage to follow the example which the men o' Home set ye the other nicht." "What have they done?" inquired Florence.
Scratch its faace an' it picks your pocket an' breaks your heart not as I've got a heart can be broken." "If 'e could awnly put more trust in the God of your faithers, my son. He done for them, why shouldn't He do for you?" "Better ax Him. Tired of the fam'ly, I reckon." "You hurt your mother, Will, tellin' so wicked as that." "An' faither so cruel," sobbed Phoebe.
Peace is surely a blessing frae Heaven no a guid wark demanded frae man; an' when it grows our duty to be in war, it's an ill thing to be in peace. Our Evangelicals are stan'in', puir folk, whar their faithers stood; an' if they maun either fight or be beaten frae their post, why, it's just their duty to fight.
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