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PAGE FOUR W M I RRO R W ^^U! ylcade*uc ) t j J II JI Office Building 73 Phone 2243 Published Every Thursday by and for the Enlisted Men of the Academic Regiment, The Infantry School, Fort Benning. Ga THURSDAY. MARCH. 30. 1944 The REGIMENTAL MIRROR receives Camp Newspaper Service material Republication of credited matter prohibited without permission of CNS, 205 E. 42 St , N. Y. C , 17. The MIRROR is also a member of the Fort Benning Press Associa tion, member newspapers of which are entitled to republication of any item printed in this paper COL E P PASSAILAIGUE LT VERNON C HOYT Commanding Advisor SGT WALTER MILLER Editor Cpl Johnston C. Woodall Assistant Editor Pvt June Freed Secretary Cpl Bernard Langeila Reporter IN DIAN-GIVI NG LOSES WARS Good news (for Hitler only I was contained in a Unit ed Press story out of Washington last week: WAR BOND CASHING NEARS SALES RATE “ Since July 1 redemptions have been 72 per cent of sales . Since Jan. 1. while redemptions have been at a high dollar rate, they average only (!) 9 per cent of sales—due to heavy buying during the Fourth War Loan.” These bare figures reflect a sad tendency to let George do it “Let George’s bond secure my savings a gainst inflation and my home against Nazism George and I will buy bonds when everybody is looking -during a bond drive, for example—and later I’ll turn mine in.” With the government depending so much upon VOL UNTARY LOANS at generous interest to finance the war. this Indian-giving smacks of cowardice and under-hand ed disloyalty It means, after all, that a plan is ashamed to refuse to buy bonds publicly, and so “biiys” them with the intention of dumping them as soon a| he can get his money back This kind of double-deali 1g deprives the Government of its right to know exactly ? how much ma terial it can throw against the Japs and Nizis at any given time. It literally yanks a man’s ammuifition away from him in the field of combat In the long run it can mean only inflation, post-war ruin and maybe defeat for all of us As soldiers we have always set examples for the rest of the nation in our bond purchases. Let’s set another ex ample BY KEEPING OUR BONDS. McDonald on saluting POINTING AT THE RIGHT EYEBROW IS NOT CONSIDERED A MILITARY SALUTE! / REGIMENTAL MIRROR Holy Communion Meets Requirements Os Drama By Chaplain Glenn S. Reddick This service was instituted on Maundy Thursday just before Good Friday After the Last । Supper Our Supreme Comman | der went out into the Garden of Gethsemane and there was be trayed by Judas Iscariot Holy Communion has been celebrated for nineteen hundred years and was the only service of the early church. The Apos tolic Fathers mention it frequ ently St. Ignatius speaks of the elements of the service as “the medicine of immortality." The service is a drama. Every part in it has meaning The vestments the priest wears have meaning He is not running a round wearing a lot of millinery for nothing. Neither are his vest ments “robes" which some nar row minded, ill-informed Protes tants speak of with awe (They think maybe the Pope is plan ning the seizure of America They must have read the Menace when they were children or be- longed to the Klu Klux Klan!) DRAMA STARTS The drama starts as the priest enters the sanctuary. The sum mary of the law represents the arrest of Christ, the Kyrie for Peter’s denial, The Epistle Christ before Caiaphas The Gradual Christ’s going from Caiaphas to Pilate. The Creed is the Church’s answer to Pilate's ques tion "What shall I do with Christ"? All this is the ap proach:—now comes the great sacrifice. The offertory and the priest washing his hands repre sent Pilate washing his hands of the blood of Jesus. The Prayer of the Church is Christ’s prayer "Father Forgive Them.” The confession is the cry of the Peni tent Thief The priest's absolu tion is Jesus’ answer to the thief, "This day thou shalt be with me in paradise.” The third act of the drama is the consecreation. This represents the crucifixion of Christ. The Communion is the burial of Our Lord. The fourth act is the Thanksgiving. The Gloria in ExceLsis represents the Resurrection. GREATEST TRAGEDY This is the drama of the world’s greatest tragedy. It fulfills all the requirements of great tragedy according to Aristotle. It has a cleansing element in it. We see the great love of Christ for His fellow men whom He loved enough to sacrifice His life for their good. It should cleanse us from all unselfishness. It has all the elements of re ligion and worship in it. Those who enter into this service feel a sense of reverence, dependence and awe. (Os course some peo ple who go to Church to meet certain people or to sell more life insurance never worship or have this feeling of worship.) TWO WORLDS We live in two worlds One is material and seen while the oth er is spiritual and unseen. “Those things which are seen are temporal and those things which are unseen are eternal”. Dives, the rich man, was a whiz in the material world, while Laz arus, the begger, was financially busted. When they came to the real world it was the other way around. Three classes of people have tried to bridge the gap be tween this shadow world and the real world. They are the proph et, the philosopher, and the relig ious man. Isaiah, after he had his vision of Almighty God. talks continually of the unseen world. Plato, the philosopher, in his il lustration in “The Cave,” taught that this world was a shadow world. Above and beyond it was the real world where dwelt Truth, Beauty. Goodness, Jus tice, and where Almighty God reigned supreme. Jesus brought the two worlds together in His service of Holy Communion MATERIAL WORLD Really the material world is nothing but protons and elec tions and vast interstices be tween them. The basis of all matter is electrical energy Who ever saw electricity? Can we ev er know the material world from our own senses? We cannot. We know only the states of our own mind. Still the material world speaks to us of something grand, noble and majestic. When we see the starry heavens above and realize that each star may be another sun with its planets we realize our insignificance and the greatness and the power of Almighty God. The bread and the wine of the communion ser vice stand for Christ’s body and blood. The wheat had to be crushed and broken to be made into bread as Christ’s body was broken on the cross. The red grapes growing purple in the amourous kisses of the autumn sun had to be crushed to produce the wine. Christ was crushed beneath the weight of the cross and the rich red wine of life flowed from his wounded side. All nature sacrifices for man in order that he may eat and drink and be clothed and the very Son of God sacrificed Himself that we might have life eternal CHRIST’S THRONE In the Communion service God is localized. This is fitting and very proper The Altar is Christ’s throne. It represents Calvary. He as a Jew worshipped in the Temple at Jerusalem. God for the Jew dwelt in the Holy of Ho lies in the Temple. Now in the LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT A recent War Department announcement has called attention to the fact that many men wait until they get to ports of embarkation to make out their wills. Since every man who wants to make out a will probably knows that he does before he gets shipped to the POE, it’s tough to understand why more men don’t take advantage of the far superior legal assistance available at permanent Army installations before they leave. A will is something that should be carefully prepared for each individual’s needs, following the special legal re quirements of his state as regards form and execution. If leaving a proper will behind in the States is something a soldier feels will help his fighting morale, he certainly hasn’t helped himself any by making out the “assembly line forms” that are often used, by necessity, in the stag ing areas. The. standard, simple forms which are avail able—and require mere filling in of names—are always supposed to be replaced anyhow at the earliest opportu nity, so they are no help to morale since they remain as essentially unfinished business. Under no circumstances is a soldier ever DIRECTED or officially URGED against his wishes to prepare a will, since wills, to be legally effective, must be drawn up vol untarily. However, the Army has provided good remin ders to service men and women of the importance of giv ing consideration to the matter. The crux of the Army’s advice is to get a will made out, if you want one at all, while you are still at a military installation where you can get all the legal assistance you want and need. The fol lowing are authorized to assist soldiers make out the “last will and testament”: Civilian attorneys, the legal assistance officer at any Army post, camp or station; a member of the Committee on War Work of any state, county or city Bar Association or of an established legal aid organization; any staff judge advocate, assistant staff judge advocate, or other officer of the Judge Advocate General’s Department; a member of any Selective Service Advisory Board who is an attorney, or a member of the armed forces who is an attorney IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE A WILL BEHIND YOU MAKE IT OUT NOW! Thursday, March 30, 1944 . Communion service or in the Mass Christ is present on the al tar. He offers Himself to God and to us. We in turn offer our selves to God and to Christ. The Communion service should mean much to soldiers They are serving both the State and their Supreme Commander As soldiers of the State they may have a "rendezvous with death As soldiers of the Cross of Christ they can have a rendezvous with eternal life at Christ's altar 1 saw the movie on Tarawa Just before the battle men who were shortly to give their lives for their country took communion You see they needed Christ s courage for He was the world's bravest man. They went to bat tie to die in a physical sense but to live eternally. No one can define death but a soldier Be cause they face death they know the meaning of life. A soldier has defined death as a magnifi cent discovery, a high adventure and a glorious freedom When the shell bursts close to you and the concussion knocks you down and a piece of red hot steel goes thru a buddy you begin to won der why Almighty God granted you longer life. You feel as if you are living on borrowed time You will after that be tempted to keep your rendezvous with life Let every soldier say: “1 have a rendezvous with Life Within the blessed Sacrament. When over me the priest is bent And Jesus comes exceeding fair I have a rendezvous with Life For He has promised to be then I know I am not worthy thus To take His life mysterious My sins are higher than a hill His love is deeper than the sea And so in my communion still I find His mercy healeth me And to my pledged word am true— I shall not fail my rendezvous (By George Craig Stewart. Late Bishop of Chicago )
