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Show - . mttw,n Hi ,i i .afia wn at n .. EXtUlfiWtf WpNii &vi$ Thre Are Times When Lcglc and De- voton Require 4That Yoit.,. . 8houlcl Oe Dead. -,. . ' t-. ' Tho Dgtnlnt bail npnthcr- obBervn- Hon or two to ipakc In tho lino qi lla Hsliill thonghTfulncBS'. -Uld Iforor oocurlo you," be a&kcd,,"th&t. one of tbc kajty&t tasks a man mu.y havo lo pfirforrc. scinctlmcB, Is tp ei)JtJi ythy ho Is !itc? The Cct6esu7 1 ftrttrn dftcr n mln bltlt'J, and It may arina after sUJuwrqeks Soyrl of, tlp; men. wcrar.c artj awaiting 'may nrfd It aWln?i fora'fow to explain thalr continued oxintftice. The world require re-quire a certrln sdboroacc to the logical, log-ical, nccsaitiua of, things, and whtn nil Icfeic. human and divine, H demanded de-manded that a man Ehou'ld dip, nnd ho Is ncvertbdeas allvo and well, the anomaly of Ids healthy prcsuncu la tjcmethlnH that he cannot account for,, with all his explanations. "1 was an army chaplain once, tfnd t saw a captain, whoso duty as tho personal aide of a general In battle, waa to stand by that Reneral's side "hen fie bullets flew. 'It happened that u bullet two bullets tbee bul lets At ruck I ho Bcncral, and nono truck tho captain. The general (ell dead; and an hour afterward, when the captain wa back nt hcadqunr tera explaining that thero was ursent need of reinforcements at tho front, and that tho general had fallen, that captain had ,'rcnt trouble in explain ing why ho was not shot, too. In fact, tho mystery has never been cleared up yet. The fact that reinforcements rein-forcements were not needed at all has always clouded tho captatn'o story, though there was no positive proof of cowardico against him. "No; when logic and all the laws of human devotion requlro that you should be dead, you had much better bo dead than alive, for all the test of your life will bo but a living death."' |