Excerpt from The Canadian Congregational Year Book, Vol. 43: Published Under the Direction of the Congregational Union of Canada by Its Publishing Committee, 1915-1916; Containing the Proceeds of the Congregational Union of Canada for 1915, General Statistics of the Denomination, Etc;, Etc It is estimated that upwards of twenty million soldiers have taken part in this fearful cataclysm. It is no exaggeration to say that two million have been mown down as grass, while tens of thousands are among the wounded. Hundreds of vessels have been sent to the bottom of the sea, carrying with them thousands of human lives. The most dastardly act of the enemy was the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine, in which some two thousand lives were lost. Cities, towns and villages have been razed to the ground; tens of thousands are homeless and have suffered the loss of all they possessed, and God only knows how many mourners for the.dead go about the streets. The conduct of the war on the part of the enemy has been most re prehensible - they having resorted to methods hitherto unknown in warfare. The most diabolical atrocities have been practised in order to destroy human liv'es, such as were unknown in the past ages; deeds of horror have been gloated over as though they were meritorious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.