We Will Remember Them

Yesterday morning at Salem Chapel, we remembered our war dead, as well as the victims of all conflicts, past and present. Angus skilfully played the Last Post and the Rouse on his trumpet from the graveyard around our two minutes’ silence, and the whole was very moving.

God in His good providence has generally spared us Britons the ravages of war these past seventy years, but many others around the world might derive even greater comfort from the great promises found in Psalm 46, from which I yesterday read:

Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah

Hasten, Lord, the day!