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14 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD try who have died for her in every war are gathered to- gether in the arms of a nation's love. It may come to pass tha? November 11 will become the All Saints' Day of Can- ada. Man is the only created being who lives in the past, present and future. He is not a beast of the field who wails the loss of his progeny from vague sense of primordial pain. Even before Christ he believed he was not made to die. So, we kindle our lamp of remembrance not only for this our own shrine. It is joined with the lights of other nations in the bright cluster of the faith in the spirit of man. Then there is the mystery of the Unknown Warrior. It is the mystery of who he may be that fascinates the mind. Your neighour or mine, Canadian, Australian, Scotsman or Londoner? He may be any one. Taken from a grave which had a name or from a name- less resting place in No Mlan's Land. It is this that holds us wondering. But really we would rather not know. A name would bind him to a few. Nameless, he belongs to us all. Identified, he would have one mother. Now he is every mother's son. Without ribbons or honours he has all honours. With- out title or rank he ranks above royalty. Without the prejudice of a name he assumes the style of every man. He is the flesh of our flesh and the kinsman to us all. He is the own brother to every honest nobody in the English-speaking world, and his honour is the Crown re- served for those who are faithful unto death. It is the significance of the unique ceremony that holds us by a spell. The unknown warrior is a type of many men and a symbol of many things. He gathers to himself all the memories of the unre- turning brave. He receives all the victories brought at so great a cost. He relieves the grief of countless mourners. He is a symbol for this and succeeding generations of youths' generous offering and the ruthless sacrifice of war.
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TRINITY COIJUEGE SCHOOL RECORD 13 ment on the Western front. It is probable that other ma- terial memorials will be erected to keep the name of Canada in the hearts of a new generation. There will be many new hallowed spots in fields that will be forever Canada. These men have done more for Canada as a nation than any other city since we were a people. They are ours. It is a City of Youth. We may grow old but they are forever young. The average age of the soldier is 25. Some- times We ask ourselves whether a life may not be complete when its great work is done. Jesus died when he was little older than the average soldier. It may well be that those of us who have to carry on through years of disillusion- ment have not a harder fate than the mlen who died in the moment of victory. In the last thirty years, our concep- tion of the other world has changed. Our memories are peopled by a multitude of heroes struck down in the flower of their youth-very different from the pale and languid cohorts of the past, composed of the sick and the aged. It is a City of Hope and Faith. In Bunyan's immortal allegory, when the Pilgrims came to the land of Beulah they could see across the valley to the celestial city, the end of their journey. We have comle down from the mountain peaks of sacrifice and idealism, and We are now near the dark valley of doubt and disenchantment. Thomas Hardy's terrific drama of the Napoleonic Wars takes the view that there is no progress and no meaning in human life, but an endless cycle of folly and Woe. Let us not forget here that those who gave their lives for Canada and the freedom of the world gave all they had, and gave it freely. They had faith-and shall not we? The Colours of the City are Scarlet and Gold. The fall of the year suggests solemn and reflective memorial. Our Canadian autumn is unique. The coming of nature's annual death is glorified by the scarlet and gold of falling leaves. It is a happy coincidence that the old Armistice Day this year begins its new life as a general Memorial Dcay on Sunday. At last all the heroes of this young coun-
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