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Now that he was really alone a all this mob of men of all sorts and conditions, he had retired more and more into the inner sanctuary of self and tried to think out the ned in his s that he called "facts" from which to work These were "God, Hereafter, Death" These things hehypothesis all his life He had been trying to live for this world as if it were the end and aim of existence, and now this war had come and this world had suddenly melted into chaos It appeared that he and thousands of others ive up their part in this world before they had hardly tried it, if they would set things right again for those that should come after But, even if he had lived out his ordinary years in peace and success, and had all that life could give hi, seventy years or so, and ere they after they were past? No, there was so beyond or it all wouldn't have been ht out details working harmoniously one with another It wouldn't have been worth while otherwise There would have been no reason for a heart life

There were boys and ht otherwise Who had accepted this life as being all A these were the ones hen they found they were taken in the draft and o to camp, had spent their last three weeks of freedoet all the "fun" they could out of life that was left to the into all the sin they could find before they went away to fight because they felt they had but a little time to live and what did it matter? But John Cameron was not one of these His soul would not let hiht it all out, and he had come thus far with these three facts, "God, Death, A Life Hereafter" He turned these over in his ed their order, "Death, A Life Hereafter, God"

Death was the gri forth to meet one of these days or months on the field of France or Italy, or somewhere "over there" He was not to wait for Death to coet hi out to challenge Death He was convinced that whether Death was a servant of God or the Devil, in some way it would make a difference with his own personal life hereafter, how heDeath bravely, with the ardor of patriotism in his breast, as he heard so many about him talk in these days That ell so far as it went, but it did not solve the mystery of the future life nor make him sure hoould stand in that other world to which Death stood ready to escort hiht be victor over his body, but he wanted to be sure that Death should not also kill that so within him which he felt must live forever He turned it over for days and came to the conclusion that the only one who could help hi of it all