How had he so failed and so misconceived the Master's plain teaching? He
moved among sinners all His days, not with denunciations in His heart or
voice, but only with pity and love.
"Be not anxious," He had said. "Consider the birds of the air. Not
one of them falleth to the ground without your Father. How much more
precious are you than the birds."
What a message for men going up to face the terrors and perils of the
front line. "Be not anxious!"
"I was afraid," his father had said to him. That to him was
inconceivable. That that gallant spirit should know terror seemed to
him impossible. Yet even he had said, "I was afraid." And for the
loneliness, what a message he now had. In their loneliness men cried out
for the presence of a friend, and the Master had said:
"When ye pray, pray to your Father. Your Father knoweth. When ye pray,
say, 'Our Father'!" And he had missed all this. What a mess he had made
of his work! How sadly misread his Master's teaching and misinterpreted
his Master's spirit!
Barry looked down upon the grave at his feet.
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