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Show AN INSPIRATION. It has been inspiring to watch Utahns at work during the past week. Something Some-thing struck fire in their hearts and fanned the flames of ennobling sentiment senti-ment to a white heat. The latest call for service has not alone appealed to the sporting blood of the people ; there has been a genuine spiritual awakening and what a wonderful experience to witness. Though far removed from the theatre of war itself we have been in close communication with many of our comrades from abroad ; their presence pres-ence electrified every occasion and surcharged sur-charged every red-blooded citizen with a spirit for service and sacrifice that will not yield possession while the war endures. After the stirring events of the week, where is the American worthy of the name who Has not felt a strange tugging at the heartstrings. whose soul has not been stirred to the depths, whose feelings have not run the whole range of human emotions, r and who has not made a high and firm resolve to serve his country with stout heart and unsparing sacrifice until the last gun is fired and an enduring peace established? If such there be in this community, he is a marked man. We owe much of course, to our distinguished dis-tinguished comrades-at-arms from the war-torn countries abroad for the remarkable re-markable success of our Red Cross drive. ' Their presence was an inspiration inspira-tion that will quicken the blood as long-as long-as memory lasts. They made a strange appeal to our better selves. We waxed warm with hero worship for the moment, mo-ment, but it was the afterthoughts that worked the greater influence. It was given us to gaze into the faces and hear the plea of these battle-scarred veterans veter-ans who had risked everything for the cause, who were still firm in the faith -and who were returning to the front to carry on the fight. And we fancy that there was not a single citizen along the long line of march who cannot truthfully confess to feeling a sense of shame at his own shortcomings. That at least, was our personal experience, and so must it have the experience of every other honest man or woman. It is more blessid to give than to receive. re-ceive. The cause of the Red Cross will prosper because of our latest and most generous offering. Who knows what blessings will come to the war-weary lands where men lie wounded and women mourn and even the little children chil-dren cease to smile, all because we have again opened up our hearts and given of our abundance to sustain them in their suffering? But even so, when the accounts are finally balanced it will be found that the richest blessings have been showered upon ourselves such as can only come through the glory glo-ry of the giving. Goodwin's Weekly. |
