THANKSGIVING SERVICE ON THE BATTLEFIELD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 49, 22 November 1918, Page 5

THANKSGIVING SERVICE ON THE BATTLEFIELD

IMPRESSIVE SCENE ON NEW ZEA- j LAND FRONT. j (Special Dispafch from the New Zealandj Official War Correspondent.)' ! November 14. ; A divisional church parade was held i this morning to celebrate the cessation of j hostilities,. The troops were formed up | by brigades, and paraded in drill, order,-j without riHes. . The service took tho i form of a solemn act of thanksgiving to! Almighty God for the armistice, and in-: eluded a prayer of invocation by the j Bishop of kelson, the reading of Psalm; 126 by Chaplain the Rev. Mr. Watsoni i tho lesson (Ephesians'2) by Chaplain the. 1 Rev. Mr. Ilardie, and a prayer of thanks-! giving by Father Segrief. The Second i Canterbury Baud played hymns, and the massed bands the National Anthem, i The servico was most impressive. The Bishop of Nelson, in iiis capacity, as chief Anglican chaplain, has been on; a lengthy visit to the New Zealand troops; in the field. During the fighting in and ! about Quesnoy ho staj-ed at one of tha : field ambulances, through which five • hundred wounded passed, cheering and' helping the officers and men, and' 'at-j tending to the dying., He says-his ex-1 perienco has greatly increased his confi-, dence in human, nature, and lie hasj been greatly impressed with the magni-j ficent way in which tho men have risen. to this great crisis in their lives. "They i are," he says, "wonderful fellows," '•