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GLASGOW LEWISMEN IN THE GREAT WAR.
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Year, to awake up widowed and orphaned. Not alone those
having kinship with the Lews, but every human heart in Glas-
gow was thrilled to the depths by this crowning calamity, sur-
rounded as it was by circumstances which increased its pathos
beyond the power of language to express. Those bereft by the
disaster were indeed stricken sore ; in their case there was not
even the relieving feature of that indefinable pride which,
despite the loss of a loved one on the field of battle, affords a
mysterious consolation to hearts bowed down in sorrow by the
death of those near and dear to them.
But Time, the great healer, and that indomitable courage
which our womankind so grandly display —
"When the storms of adversity blow,"
sustain alike the grief-stricken through the darkest and most
difficult periods — and for the possession of that admirable
trait, we are justly proud of our women folk.
A word in conclusion. At the annual meeting of the
Glasgow Lewis and Harris Association last November, the
genial and esteemed proprietor of the island — Lord Lever-
hulme — made fitting reference to the Lewisman's love for his
native soil — a devotion which his Lordship very properly
defined as second to none in the world. We Lewismen whose
lot happens to be cast in various parts of the world realise
perhaps even more keenly than those who dwell in the island
how very true this assertion is. The tragedies and the vic-
tories of the Great War have but intensified that passionate
devotion, and it is the fervent hope and the sincerest wish of
the writer that, whatever the future may have in store, every
son and daughter of Lewis may be found taking — with credit
to themselves and to the Empire to which they are so loyal —
a worthy part in all that appertains to the well-being of
mankind.
NEIL M. MACLEOD.