WINSTON CHURCHILL VICTORY

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Victory
Although many of us appreciate Winston Churchill, his
stature, his inspiration that sustained England during
the gathering storm and in their finest hour, we may
not have realized his faith in Christ. He planned his
funeral carefully, choosing every hymn, lesson and
participant. In 1963 as the "Liturgy of Burial" in St.
Paul's Cathedral concluded, there was a brief silence
and then from the Whispering Gallery a bugler sounded
TAPS, signifying the day is done, life is over.
After a specified interval, from the other end of the
great dome, buglers played REVEILLE, the dramatic
announcement that a new day had just begun. Churchill
thus testified to the Resurrection, that a new day, a
new chapter of life as beginning for Christ's faithful
soldier and spokesman for human freedom. It had been
148 years since Victory at Waterloo, but the message
remained the same, "God has given us victory through
Jesus Christ our Lord."
J. Lorne Peachey, The Mennonite. Christianity Today.
April 2000.
Cited in Encounter magazine (Australia), April/May 2004