I pray to Thee for them all."
This prayer, in which the little soldier had put his last living
thoughts, was received by a Catholic sister who had cared for him,
and sent by her to his sorrowing family--a touching proof of sacred
union.
All of them, Catholics, Protestants and Jews, speak of God and pray to
Him.... Read this letter from Captain Cornet-Acquier, that captain to
whom his wife wrote, "I would urge you on with my voice if I saw you
charging the enemy." He tells this little incident:
"A Catholic captain was saying the other day that he said
his prayers before each battle. The commanding officer
remarked that that was not the proper moment and that he
would do better to make his military arrangements.
"'Sir,' he replied, 'that does not prevent me from making my
military arrangements and from fighting. I feel better for
it.'
"Then I said:
"'Captain, I do the same thing you do. And I find I get
along pretty well.'"
This is the letter a young Catholic wrote the evening before a battle
to his fiancee:
MY DEAR JEANNE:
Tomorrow at ten o'clock, to the sounds of "Sidi Brahim" and
the "Marseillaise" we charge the German lines. The attack
will probably be deadly.
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