The Sorrow of War
Julius C. Hare. Mark 13:7 And when you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be you not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. The conqueror of Bonaparte at Waterloo wrote, on the day after the 19th of June, to the Duke of Beaufort: — "The losses we have sustained have quite broken me down, and I have no feeling for the advantages we have acquired." On the same day, too, he wrote to Lord Aberdeen: — "I cannot express to you the regret and sorrow with which I look round me and contemplate the loss which I have sustained, particularly in your brother. The glory resulting from such actions, so dearly bought, is no consolation to me, and I cannot suggest it as any to you and his friends; but I hope that it may be expected that this last one has been so decisive as that no doubt remains that our exertions and our individual losses will be rewarded by the early attainment of our just object. It is then that the glory of the actions in which our friends and relations have fallen will be some consolation for their loss." He who could write thus had already attained a greater victory than that of Waterloo; and the less naturally follows the greater. (Julius C. Hare.) Parallel Verses KJV: And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. WEB: "When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't be troubled. For those must happen, but the end is not yet.