The grass in the meadow was soft and velvety, and, just behind the spot where I had placed the altar, a silver stream wandered slowly by.

When one adds to such a scene, the faces of a group of earnest, well-made and heroic young men, it is easily understood that the beauty of the service was complete.

When it was over, I reminded them of the twenty-third Psalm, "He maketh me to lie down in green (p.

078) pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters." There too was the table prepared before us in the presence of our enemies.
At Steenje, as no billet had been provided for me, the Engineers took me in and treated me right royally.

Not only did they give me a pile of straw for a bed in the dormitory upstairs, but they also made me an honorary member of their mess.