Christianity -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
No part of the Empire rendered the cause of the world's soul in the
world war greater service than Canada. When the clouds of chlorine gas
were let loose it was the Canadians who stopped the gap through which
the torrent of destruction was flowing. And the question the wounded
men gasped out of tortured throats and lungs was not 'Shall I live?'
but 'Did the Huns get through?' In the great host that at last swept
the wolves back to their lair, the Canadians were foremost. 'We pledge
ourselves solemnly before God to keep faith with our fallen comrades,'
wrote General Currie to Sir Robert Borden, and nobly did they fulfil
the pledge. To-day when a citizen of the States begins to demonstrate
how his countrymen won the war, a Canadian produces the official
statistics from his pocket and shows how the ten millions of Canada
gave more of their sons over to death and wounds than the total
casualties of the one hundred and ten millions in the States. And it
is not surprising that Canada should have a clear vision of the ideal
of duty. The very name that their country bears lifts that young
nation into the fellowship of the highest ideal. When a name was
discussed for the new confederation an inspiration came to Sir Leonard
Tilley as he read the eighth verse of the seventy-second psalm: 'He
shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the
ends of the earth,' and on his initiative the name Dominion was
adopted. Not for Canada alone but for the whole Empire that name sets
forth the only ideal. The cry of 'World-dominion or death' can only be
overcome at last by the watchword 'God-dominion and Life.'
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