TOC H MISSION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 8

TOC H MISSION.

ADDRESS BY FOUNDER.

"You in New Zealand who lost 16,000 of the flower of your manhood in the Great War have still to regret that this loss lias produced no change in the spirit of living of-your people. The dynamic force of Toe H rises up from the souls of these dead heroes. It came to fulfil their unfulfilled ambitions, " said the Hew 1\ 13. Clayton in the course of an address on the aims of Too 11, at the Cathedral, yesterday afternoon.

Mr Clayton said he was amazed that so little 'was known in New Zealand of the greatest movement originating from the war. The organisation had 10,000 young men'behind it, praying for ii. riiireiy this was uniquo in the lusiorv of men. All New Zealand, the most British of all the Dominions, should know of the movement, which was growing to such large dimensions in England. The movement was not Anglican. It embraced all creeds, and the speaker was pleased to ssy thai it included some oCO Roman Catliolios. If Toe fl stood for anything to-day, it slood for the finest memorial of the war which it was possible to erect. It was the bearing aloft of the. torch of those who had fallen. "Christian fellowship was not the product of a mutunl admiration society," continued the speaker. "To be a Christian you must be above all a lover of your fellow and a follower of an ideal." Another aim of Toe H was to rejuvenate the youth movement in the Church as it was found in the early days. Whore was youth to be found' in the Church today? A man cajne into Toe H to surrender himself to a life of sacrifice and service. It was not an alluring pros-pt-ct, but it had been faced by the greatest men of every age. "I am not here to organise Too H, concluded Mr Clayton, "it is not an organisation, it is a spirit, an essence, which is the same all the world over. The men who died have been commemorated sufficiently with monuments and marble pillars; they would prefer this kind of memorial to any other, that we bear aloftHhe ideal for which they died." , At Christ's College. Tn a sermon to the puni.ls of Christ's College yesterday morning Mr Clayton took for his test the story.of the return of Abraham from Egypt, to be found in the third chapter of Genesis. He outlined the picture of a tribe pitching a camp in those olden days and setting up an altar. Mr Clayton used this to illustrate the expansion of the Toe H movement, and also referred to Christ's College in the early days in Lyttelton when a party of nomands who had piched their camp and set up their altar. The preacher stressed the. importance of power and a purpose in life. Without it life was empty—a mere existence.

Mr Clayton also spoke at the Liberty Theatre last night.