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HAVERGAL COLLEGE MAGAZINE 11 Principal ' g Hetter, Havergal College, Winnipeg, April 28th, 1915. My dear Girls: Like all other things in these great days, our Magazine bears the impress of the War. It is therefore especially fitting that as frontispiece we have an excellent likeness of the best-known and most honored of our western soldiers — General Steele. To him has fallen the arduous task of leading our Second Canadian Expeditionary Force, and we are confident that he will add to the many laurels he has gained on other fields. General Steele has so often shown his kind interest in the College that we felt a per- sonal gratification in his recent honour, and all our hopes and prayers and good wishes will go with him and his gallant men. This week has brought heavy tidings to many Canadian homes. We enter the Valley of the Shadow with a quickened sense of the burden borne since last August by the mothers and wives of the Homeland, and by those heroic daughters of the Allied Coun- tries who have seen their homes swept away in the hour of deepest bereavement. The women of the Western world — and the girls that shall be the women of our Empire — stand very close to- gether in this hour. We are not all called to enter the Valley — perhaps we are not worthy, but the Shadow lies upon us all. Christian must needs go through it, because the way to the Celestial City lay through the midst of it. Now, this Valley is a very solitary place. How solitary, none can tell but the pilgrims who pass through, each one alone. All our loving sympathy can do little to bring them into a sense of fellowship; their very grief sets them apart. The pathway is here exceeding narrow, and though we may follow, we cannot walk abreast. In the great allegory Christian called, as we do in our longing to help them, to him that was before; but he knew not what to answer, for that he also thought himself to be alone. Yet on that dark road, over which hung the discouraging clouds of Confusion, there came to both travellers the conviction that they were not alone, that behind the shadow God was with them. May it be so with us and all we love when our call comes.
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12 HAVERGAL COLLEGE MAGAZINE This Magazine letter will not be a long one this year, for it is hard to turn from the great, absorbing thought in all our minds to the small events of the School Year. Yet it is the one oppor- tunity of that year to greet once more the old girls separated from us by time and distance. So many of you are busy as home daugh- ters, or with new ties in homes of your own. and whenever we hear of or from you we wish you God-speed. As the West fills up and new conditions prevail, we hear of others who in various professions are making an honorable name for themselves and their old School. No less than five old girls are training as nurses in the General Hospital at present, and two are helping in hospi- tals in England. Recent events have shown us of what value to society such trained workers are, and I hope that one lesson of the War will be that of the duty which lies on each one of us, in School years and afterwards, to make herself ready, both in body and soul, for the calls and claims of the new and cleaner national life which is to come. Everywhere, in militant and neutral countries, life is going to be different. It is different already. Vaguely, but with increas- ing clearness, we begin to realize the debt we owe to our nation and our Empire. We have been like happy, careless children in a splendid household, fed and cared for and protected by the Empire ' s servants, with leave to lead our own life and choose our own pleasures. And last August, on the fourth day of the month, all that changed. We have been taking, taking, taking; now we must give, give, give. When we give, we must count up what we have to give. That means a day of reckoning. What have you and I to give? Our men have given all — home and fortune and life itself. We stay- at-homes must not be behind them in daily surrender and sacri- fice. Has this lesson, the plainest of all, really come home to us? Have we learned it, really learned it, made it a part of ourselves, like a hard rule in French or Latin to be applied through exercise and example? If you have really grasped a rule, as you have been often told in the schoolroom, you will know when it is broken, and shudder at the solecism. Shall we shudder when we find our- selves departing from the rule of unselfish sacrifice which this terrible time is sent to teach us? Are our souls as well as our hearts more sensitive for this year? Can we give what is worth giving? A day of reckoning pro- vokes many questions. In the days which will follow this War, Canada, like all other nations, will need wise minds and strong hands to build and shape things so that no such war may come upon the world again. Can you do your share? Are you using your time in the schoolroom and out of it so that your will and brain will obey you? Unless your mind becomes by training a valuable instrument for thinking and judging, you will not have much to give to Canada. The selfish and the unfaithful and the lazy will not be able to build up the waste places and repair the desolations, nor to mark out new paths for the children ' s feet to
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