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Show Sir Campbell Bannerman's body wa's carried to Westminster Abbey and the funeral service over it was pronounced there. It was for that he toiled in his country's service for half a century. cen-tury. It is in the mind of every British statesman, states-man, it is consciously or unconsciously in the thought of every bright British boy. To be carried car-ried there where the glorified dead of a thousand years are sleeping and have the last words spoken spok-en above them there, that is the dream. "Victory or Westminster Abbey," were Nelson's words as he went under a battle cloud. It is a great incentive in-centive for lo that is regal company. Kings and queens, great soldiers, great statesmen, great scholars, great poets those who have served their country in every field. What a certificate for a soul to carry to the stars. No wonder it is hard for an Englishman to ever fall when put to the test; no wonder Englishmen are stubborn when they measure the fame of their country with any other. |