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the six days from the seventh, in anchoring
the business ships of our daily life, as
the Saturday draws to its close, leaving them
to ride peacefully upon the flow or the ebb,
until Monday morning come again.”

The Sec’y also pre-empted Ellen Farquhar’s
claim by reading one of Walt Mason’s anti-war
screeds, - Restoration”.

In Europe when the war is done, the harried
land will smile once more; the churches sacked
by howling Hun, some gifted genius will restore.
The ruined shrines will rise again, to cheer the
pious passerby; but who’ll restore the brave young
men, who left their happy homes to die? Again
the rich and fruitful vine will grow on France’s
sunny hills, where now the lethal bullet whines
a requiem for the men it kills. Strong, patient hands
will bring again the bloom to all the countryside;
but who’ll bring back the fine young men who
bade their girls farewell, and died? For all the
wreckage do not grieve – a few years hence
t’will be a dream; once more the busy looms
will weave, the mill-wheels paddle in the stream;
again the sage will take his pen, and art
will gain its former stride; all will come back
except the men who kissed their mother’s lips
and died. All ruined things will be restored;
the sunken ships will be replaced; and there
will be an endless horde of men in soldiers trappings
laced; the bear will mutter in its den, the
lion roar in angry pride; but gone forever are the
men who left their fathers’ roofs and died.”

Adjourned to the home of Sarah F. Willson
Mary Bentley Thomas, Sec’y.

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