Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1915 — DYING MESSAGE OF SOLDIER [ARTICLE]

DYING MESSAGE OF SOLDIER

Vivid Picture of Pathos of Man PassIng Away in a Foreign Land. London.—At Hull the other day the archbishop of York read a letter from one of his own chaplains at the front, giving a vivid picture of the pathos . of a soldier dying in a strange land for a cause he only dimly understood. Kneeling beside a wounded Boldier in a little tent lighted by a candle flickering in the wind, the chaplain was addressed thus: “Am I dying, sir?* “Yes, sonny, you are.” “My God!" Then a pause. “Please break it gently to my missus. She is expecting my first baby just about now.” The chap* lain took up a crucifix from his neck and held it up. The soldier raised hiit head, laid it down again and began to smile —“the loveliest smMe I ever saw,” says the chaplain.