LATE LORD KITCHENER
■ A UNITED SERVICE GREAT GATHERING AT THE TOWN HALL . The Town Hall was packed last evening, . on the occasion' of the united memorial .service for the late Field-Mar-shal Lord Kitchener. The' attendance Slumbered'about 3000. Among those, oc;uj}yinj| prominent seats were His Excellency tho Governor, the Countess of Liverpool, Mrs. Massey, Sir Joseph- Ward, Lady Ward, members of the CaDinet, the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke),' Mrs. Luke, tnembers of members of the City Council, General Robin, General Henderson, .and a .bodyof nurses. ~ Tho service was conducted by the lit. Rev. Bishop Sprott, Revs. Dr. Gibb, J. Roed Glasson, and J. G. Chapman, and was vory impressive: .-•At-, the commencement of the service Bishop Sprott remarked that he t thought It would /promote if/ the people stood during the short prayers; and he requested'them'also to join in making n, short response aftor tho prayers. Both these requests, of course, were acceded ■tO; .
" An. address-was'delivered by the Rev. Dr. Gibb, who said that those present: ■ had-met to commemorate the virtues of the late Lord ICitchenor and to .render' thanks to God for, the services of a. great' soldier, wise statesman, and great-heart-ed servant of God '.'.arid/England; '. In', .. pulpit, Press, , and platform , the mighty deeds done by him in the, last two /years ' had been recited, 1 -and it would be well ,•■ to these.. At the beginning: of (i V the war, had anyone' told us that in .eighteen months our little Army would have swelled into a mighty-host of fighting men, ho would have seemed ,a ; dreamer, but the dream had come' true,' and the wizard .was the late' Eord Kitchener. It was- assuredly his 'hand the hand that: guided, his mind,','the 'mind ' that planned. But when looting at the f, achievements of his "closing "y ears, . we' . jnust- not Overlook what lie had done'/be- ' fore that,time.. There were his aphieve- ■ ments- in the.Sudan,/in Egypt, in India; and (witVLord Robßrts) he accomplished' ' the ending pf the/Soiltlv African' war in . Britain's favour. It was'.- a' comfort when we could .say/of one'who had pass- • ' «d from this bouriio: "This was a man of whom God's heart was not ashamed." And such'/a jhan was 'Lord ' Kitchener' 'I*hen there' was Lord Kitchener's memor -. able address to'the Expeditionary .Force' "'/ in which he v said:. "Fear God, and': lion . our the .King"! Lord Kitchener;did ,110' . . wear liis heart on in* sieeve—his religio' ./ . was lived, not; spoken. ...Therb-wns no, thing' of the .egotist or., <H about , tho late Field-Marshal; his objec' . was . sacrifice himself .to his rulini- -. pnssion—duty.: There' was tho story o ; ; thorcamp-bed brought ..to his /office tint' ho might snatch his rest, beside hi? .work, and so lose no ; time. ; — There - wa'
■'a refreshing, side, ,too, in/.the ,-pleasinr attachments -he made amongst those h' i permitted ~ himself to become v faniiliai vwitli. -. Kitctener had goue beyond t'hesf voices.', - :At first-the. news was received with .dismay, and'our Allies- were affect: ■cd in almost ' an" equal degree. l . Even our
enemies.* received the: tidings ;in| a • kinc? "I ' -irn'fi ; liut God lived, - and, if 'we put our, trust in Him, Ho would raise up other men. to help ns to do as great things as: Kitchener did, and may be'even greater.' Pre- ' paration should He. made -to carry on tho r ..work, for was not the Empire' of Britain . . worthy of any , sacrifice ? ,' Well might we ; strike and strike again for this territory of .ours. But it was for. more thani.Bri.pieiigcU to strike; we were' ' • i'ffMiag -for tho rights of man, the iKing-. dom of God. 'AH could, riot go to ! the ; tront; ' but -, we.' could . make such sacri-' • aces that would prove us worthy of the Hv" Wh ° W ° t? we. might .' gatherihg-'./then. stood While .the R 1 y «^ rgan,st (Mr- Bernard Page) played t 8 ' March ;.in Saul " and bugierß ■ if 01 ?',)- Trentham ■'/sounded ■' "Hie Last ,±;ost, prayers, were ,offered.-.the; benedicjiras/pronounced,.- JjGod. Savo the --King, -watf, Bring; and the: service, -brief, but- inemorable, was over.- . v
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2796, 14 June 1916, Page 7
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