Excerpt from St. Andrew's Society, Annual Sermon: Chalmers Church, Kingston, First December, 1918 The St. Andrew's Society of Kingston has sustained the heaviest loss that could befall it in the death of its most justly honoured President, Major John Ball. It brings the war closer to us to think that this man, so robust, so powerful, so quick in all his thinking and in all his acting, should have fallen a victim to the strain of his work in India. Had he stayed at home, a family man with much depending on him, no one could have felt that his choice had been other than wise. But he was a true son of his, country and it was for him impossible, in such a time, to stay still. He volunteered for service with his old regiment, his ability was at once recognized, and he was placed upon the Staff. His letters of recent months had been full of a note of tiredness, unusual in a man of such force. His sudden death from a disease that one never would have thought would have stricken him, is as truly the result of his service in the war as if' he had fallen with a bullet through his head. The sympathy of the Society, as, indeed, of the whole community, goes out to Mrs. Dall in this saddest of. Human sorrows. We pray that the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, may dwell with her and with the little daughter whom the father was not to be spared to 'see. 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.