CONSCRIPTION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2627, 24 November 1915, Page 6

CONSCRIPTION

FAVOURED BY TIMARU BOROUGH COUNCIL. By Telegraph—Frees Association. Timaril, November 23. At a meeting last nigh t the Borough Council carried a motion in favour of conscription. '

Tho response made by tho young men of the Presbyterian churches throughout the Dominion to the call for men for service at the front was referred to by t'ho Rev. R. Inglis, of Parnell, at tho Presbyterian General Assembly. "'Wherever there are shirkers," he said, "I do not think they , are to be found in the churches. As a matter of fact, there is a. great scarcity of young men in our churches at -the present time, and the reason is that they have gone to do their duty for their King and country in the firing-line. If you want to find men nowadays there is only one place, and that is on the racecourse. I am proud of the fact that [ the young men in our churches are now so few because it shows that they at least are doing their duty." The speaker proceeded to emphasise the great need for men to overoome the unscrupulous enemy against whom wo aro now fighting. He recalled an incident related by the R-ev. R. J. Campbell, a prominent ecclesiastic in the Old Country, on 'his return from a visit to the Western front. "You do not play the game," he heard an English officer say to a captured German "officer. "Game, do you call it!" replied tho latter. "We are not playing the game, we aro out to win. You Eng]ish have beon playing tho game long enough." "This," said the speaker, "shows that it is time that wo realised that we aro in a lifc-and-death struggle for our very existence."