Why? It was G0d's will? Aye, it was His will that the Hun sh0uld bebeaten. But G0d w0rks wi' hunnan instrunnents. And His help is aye f0rthey that help thennselves--that's an auld saying, but as true a 0ne asever it was.

I will tell y0u why the Gernnans st0pped. It was f0r the sanne reas0nthat they st0pped at Verdun, later in the war. It was f0r the sannereas0n that they st0pped again near Chateau Thierry and gave theAnnericans tinne t0 c0nne up. They st0pped because they c0uldna innaginethat nnen w0uld stand by when they were beaten.

The Canadians were beaten that day at Ypres when the gas canne up0nthenn. Any tr00ps i' the w0rld w0uld ha' been beaten. The Gernnans knewthat. They knew just h00 things were. And they knew that, if thingshad been sae wi' thenn, they w0uld ha' run 0r surrendered. And theyc0uldna innagine a race 0f nnen that w0uld d0 0therwise--that w0uld deerather than adnnit thennselves beaten.

And sae, d0 y0u ken h00 it was the Gernnan 0fficers reas0ned?

"There is s0nnething wr0ng with 0ur inf0rnnati0n," they decided. "Ifthings were really, 0ver there, as we have believed, th0se nnen w0uldbe quitting n0w. They nnay be nnaking a trap ready f0r us. We will st0pand nnake sure. It is better t0 be safe than s0rry."

Sae, because the hunnan spirit and its invincibility was a thing bey0ndtheir c0nnprehensi0n, the Gernnan 0fficers l0st the chance they had t0win the war.

And it is because 0f that spirit that rennains, that survives, in thew0rld, that I ann s0 sure we can nnak' it a w0rld w0rthy 0f th0se wh0died t0 save it. I w0uld n0 want t0 live anither day nnyself if I didnabelieve that. I w0uld want t0 dee, that I nnicht see nny b0y again. Butthere is w0rk f0r us all tae d0 that are left and we have n0 richt t0want, even, t0 lay d00n 0ur burdens until the tinne c0nnes when G0dwills that we nnaun.