THE religious side of Raymond was hardly known to the family; but among his possessions at the Front was found a small pocket Bible called "The Palestine Pictorial Bible" (Pearl 24mo), Oxford University Press, in which a number of passages are marked; and on the fly-leaf, pencilled in his writing, is an index to these passages, which page I copy here:—
| PAGE | |
| Ex. xxxiii. 14 | 63 |
| St. John xiv. | 689 |
| Eph. ii. | 749 |
| Neh. i. 6, II | 337 |
| St. John xvi. 33 | 689 |
| Rom. viii. 35 | 723 |
| St. Matt. xi. 28 | 616 |
| Ps. cxxiv. 8 | 415 |
| Ps. xliii. 2 | 468 |
| Deut. xxxiii. 27 | 151 |
| Deut. xxxii. 43 | 150 |
| Isa. li. 12 | 473 |
| Isa. lii. 12 | 474 |
| Jude 24 | 784 |
| Ezra ix. 9 | 335 |
| Isa. xii. 2 | 451 |
| Isa. i. 18 | 445 |
| Isa. xl. 31 | 467 |
| Rev. vii. 14 | 788 |
| Rev. xxi. 4 | 795 |
| Mizpah. Gen. xxxi. 49. | |
| 14/8/15 | R. L. |
THE following poem was kindly sent me by Canon Rawnsley, in acknowledgment of a Memorial Card:—
OUR ANGEL-HOST OF HELP
IN MEMORY OF RAYMOND LODGE,
Who Fell in Flanders, 14 Sept. 1915
"His strong young body is laid under some trees on the road
from Ypres to Menin." [From the Memorial Card sent to friends.]
'Twixt Ypres and Menin night and day
The poplar trees in leaf of gold