Remembrance Day And Its Significance

Chronicle (Levin), 7 November 1949, Page 4

Remembrance Day And Its Significance

"Remembrance Day is one of our saddest days for on Remembrance Day, our nation mourns the loss and honours the memory of our dead in war," said Rev. A. Salmond in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Levin, yesterday morning. The service was attended by Levin members of the Legion of Frontiersmen. "The nation," said the preacher, "has a place and purpose in God's ordering of things. Our national character, national history and national destiny do not lie outside God's plan and purpose for our lives. Remembrance Day is an occasion of thanksgiving to God for the characteristics of our people, the spirit of our race and the great resources of the Empire." Mr. Salmond called on the congregation to give thanks to God for King and eonstitution, for the rich endowment and high genius of leaders in the political, military and civilian fields, and for the industry, loyalty and honesty of -men and women of. British stock ttirbughout the world. "Remembrance Day is a day of confession .and repentance," he continued. "While nationally we do not seek war, yet we haveshared in the weaving of a pattern of life that produces it. War is not an act of God. It is a disease that breaks out when the Cross of Christ is despised and God's way of salvation is rejected. We know that the Church in the vorld in her Master's Name heals :he sick, cares for the orphan, > ieeds the hungry, enlightens the nind and awakens the soul. W'hat 3art have you and I in that minstry?" Asked the preacher. Remembrance Day was a day for . naking vows and vows were jolemn. proinises made not to men, . .put to God, he concluded.