Show MERCIER NEVER LOST FAITH persecuted belgian cardinal always confident that god would save the unhappy country cardinal mercier cr archbishop of malines wits not actually imprisoned by the Gern Ger iuna niang but hla his freedom was restrained ilia his offense was waa tile the issuing of a n pastoral letter to ills his people in january 1015 in which lie he scald 1 I have goiri through most ot of the places in III nir in v diocese lilu cese which atch anve ive been wasted what I 1 have seen been of the ruins ruing and tins tim ashes ait lips anything that in spite of iny any int acute fears I 1 could ever have wu finah ined hied churches schoon lH char hospitals convents to a consider considerable tible nuin her tire are unlit for use or n are re in ruins ruing whole have almost disappeared god will save belgium nel Klinn my any brothers ive e cannot doubt it let us say rather lie ile Is saving tier lier it Is there a single patriot acho to does not feel glory bai come to BI belgium glum which of us ua would have the courage to tear out the last page of our hist history dry which of us can look without pride on the splendor of the glory that our murdered country has won |