THE PADRE'S NEW ROLE
As chaplains 011 landjj,nd at sea thousnnd.s of them have made a real mark, and failures have been few and far uptween. One very youthful chaplain felt ho was making a sad mess of comforting the dying and exhorting the living, and his worst fears were realised when the C.O. sent for lnni. "Padre, if you'll excuse my saying so, you're a d d rotten chaplain j the men will never follow you to heaven." "I rather felt that, sir," stammered the flummoxed padre. "But I tell you what," continued the C.0., "vou'd 1 make a blinking fine-com-pany officer, and then the men would follow you to hell." , . So the padre went home, joined an ('.T.C., and in six months went over the top as a combatant officer.
The Camp'C'ouimandant at Trentham acknowledges with thanks receipt of a sack of vegetables from the New Plymouth Women's Patriotic League, which has been distributed to the troops. Also the following gifts, which havo been distributed in the camp hospitals:—From the Red Cross Society, Wellington, books, walking-sticks, papers, woollen comforts, periodicals, and sundries; from tho Salvation Army, Wellington, cake, fruit, sweets, handkerchiefs; from Mr. James Webster (Heretaunga), parcel of books. |
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 304, 12 September 1918, Page 8
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201THE PADRE'S NEW ROLE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 304, 12 September 1918, Page 8
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