Illustration and Conclusion to a Funeral Sermon:

On June the 18th, 1915, 175 years ago to this day, the combined forces of Austria, Russia, Great Britain and Prussia, under the leadership of the British general Arthur Wellesly Wellington, engaged the powerful army of the French Empire, under Napoleon Bonaparte, near a Belgium town named Waterloo. By a pre-arranged agreement, the British army, at the end of that day, was to signal back to the coast the result of the outcome of that battle through a code of smoke signals. The message would then be communicated across the English Channel and hand-delivered to the King of England in the city of London.

On the evening of June 18th, at the conclusion of that fierce battle, in which more than 25,000 men lost their lives, the English communication e…