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Show WUM how to lzeep silence, especially in tumult. and then how to speak the decisive words which are the com- mands of Right and the countersign of Honour; Shakespearean figure of history and legend, dream and reality, fire and melancholy, epic and poemi wandering and trust/ill Prince, horseman of a sublime crusade, advancing on the dunes of exile, asking not whither God is leading him by the bridle-laughtlang, paladin-king, plain soldier-hing, it‘ll!) possesses nothing but his shattered arnis‘, and his flying people --this King7 without a kingdom, Albert Loch/and, Albert of Belgium and of France, is at present the most famous, the best belated. the most mighty of kings, for he reigns, an absolute monarch. and holds magic may orer our gratiful hearts, This is his empire. spiritual and moral, indestructible and limitless, a domain that cannot be taken from him, and that he will hold even after he has regained and extended his terrestrial kingdom with our help. What need has he at the moment of throne or palace .? ll‘heret'er he passes, he is at home, received and saluted by the love and respect of civilised nations, proud to greet him as their guest. All those whose common cause he ‘EL'tlS the first to defend, look upon themselt'es as the faithful subjects of his twice sacred lllajesty. "is sceptre is his untarnished su'ord ; he is the Hero whose free, bare head in battle towers above the . ‘ crown and touches the stars. Long lire King Albert I, our saviour, admirable and suffering King, magnificent in his idealism .' By SARAH BERNHARDT VIVE lc Roi Albert ! Héros pur ! Martyr de la foi jurée ! Il s'est avancé, suivi dc son tout petit pcuplewsi grand l au devant dc la horde innombrable dcs Barbares. Refusant tous les dons, rcjetant toutes les promesses, impassible ‘a toutes lcs menaccs ; dcs jours ct dcs nuits il a term on échcc les forbans allemands. Jamais la France ne pourra oublicr sa dcttc dc reconnaissance. Mais l'hcurc du triomphc approchc; ct la Victoire qui ticnt dans ses mains glorieuscs la balance dc la Justice donncra au Roi Albert et a son vaillant peuplc unc large part do territoirc allcmand. it 165 pcuples germains soumis aux belges apprendront enfin cc que sont l'lionncur ct l'humanité. TRANSI,:17'I().'\‘ Long hr-e King Albert l Spotless hero l .llnrtyr to his plightcd faith l lie went forth, follow d by all his little people-the little people that is so great l-ta meet the innumerable hosts of the Barbarians, Refusing all gifts, rejecting all promises, dauntless in the face of threats, for days and nights he held the German freebooters in check. A‘i'i‘er fl‘tll ls'iancefor» get her dibt (j gratitude l But the hour of triumph approaches ,' mul l'ietmj', Echo holds the scales of justice in hcr glorious hands, :ei/l git‘e King Albert and his r'aliant people a large share of Gnman M MM - By ADMIRAL SIR JOHN JELLICOE A MESSAGE FROM THE GRAND FLEET H.M.S. Iron Duke, October 29, 1914 I HAVE much pleasure in sending a message from the Grand Fleet. It is this : That even as Belgium has shown her heroism in deeds, while her sufierz'ags are too bitter to express in words, so those of the Grand Fleet trust to show their sympathy in deeds, knowing that silence becomes them best at all times. QM .-- By SIR EDWARD RUSSELL SMALL countries have great ideals. Yet the grandeur of the Belgian ideal has been a surprise to the world. It has arrested universal attention. It has inspired universal admiration. The Belgians always enjoyed the respect of other peoples. But no nation can absolutely avert the influences upon it, or avoid the diversions of its course, which come of associations imposed by dominant personalities, and by compelling events. So it happened that Belgium, though secure in its constitutional liberties and zealous in the exercise of them, encountered moral and political difficulties; had to face awkward exigencies of administration and policy ; and did not create for her future expectations of heroism or of higher excellence than commercial enterprise and probity. Then, without warning, came the temptation, cynical and alluring, of the Berlin Satan. Belgium rang true. She repelled the temptcr. She scorned the bait. She elected martyrdom-martyrdom not merely for political theory, not at all for any projects or aims of material well-being-martyrdom for national honour and for international right. Thus, at the touch of a tragic cxigency wickedly created, sprang into being a magnificent conscience void of offence before God and man, and an enthusiasm for heroic life and struggle and sacrifice, which glorified every Belgian with the noblest glory ; from the harassed King, more than sharing the troubles of his subjects, tr‘ri itory. 'l'lms Germans [Hit/(l the rub of Belgium trill at last learn something of honour and lnmtaisity. By SIR F. C. BURNAND I AM deeply grateful for this opportunity of expressing my heartfelt sympathy w1th King Albert, his brave soldiers, and his undaunted people, in this time of fearful trial. K) to the poorest peasant, driven by the villainy of unscrupulous and oppressive hostility to the loss of his all and to the anxious miseries of impoverished and forlorn exile. A wonderful expansion of traditional sympathy and appreciation has been experienced by the British nation in presence of this noble spectacle. Touching memories distinguish with a new and rare quality of homage the accession of faith in Belgium which Belgian conduct-finer than any possible professions-has produced in our people. Leopold the First, husband of a darling English princess, grandfather of Albert, King of the Belgians, who is worthy of him, was the Nestor of Europe, the counsellor of Queen Victoria. 11 our There were few problems his 117 MOM! |