THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 11

THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE

AN INDIVIDUAL' OPPORTUNITY.

. The war which., is just.ovcr. has'taught the world .tho .sacrednes.s of.". sacrifice, Ev'ery went to-battle, every 'Woman 'who sent hermenfolk' to' fight, sacrificed: .something. 111 many ■ thousands of instances: it'was the' precious 'lives-of melt that.were sacrificed. < Yet there are:-still in; this country large numbers of ; people who havo -sacrificed nothing, in connection .with this titanic conflict of armies. .-' They have lived tho sarno steady round of life that -. they did before the war; : they have lost no dear .'ones,., suffered 110 financial losses, indeed, many-of them , have: profited directly by-,, thenar and indirectly b.V| the deaths: of their .brave : fellow-country-.: riie'll. • not-suggested-.tlmt these ler,innate - peoplo- achieved - this, : immunity from sacrifice deliberately-}; at ' lifts- been. ; more in the nature of a cabn progression .on-the. old linos .that has carried them scatlile'ss through times ■ of- storm. Aud tlioy aro as .thankful as any at the happy termination-of the fight between right and wrong. I'lie time has passed." for' ' the. "doing - of . great ' things- by halves, or in a hole'-aiid--'corner way. .Our fighters overseas have set a deathless'-example of that. Everything they did they (lid with nil their might, mid it behoves those wlio prospered here in safety while their, soldiers fought and died, to carry on this rioblc. spirit and to make sacrifices in order to 'achieve' -greatly.' '-The proposed cathedral is to 'be a memorial .to tlioso fine men who perished 011 active' servico, and a. thank" offering' to God-'-for'tho' safe return of the.'.fighting liicn who were not •'slain -in' batt'le-V-lt-' is an opportunity for individual effort and sacrifice.-. ' J-li® pcojile of. .New. Maud;' are prosporous, .tlie irioney is", here;' imd ivliat- - finer -ineino'rial- to brave men /could bo built than this" cathedral ? And if thiß. cathedral ' worthily 'commemorates the deeds of New Zealand's heroes it surely will bo that,-for they have a fame and dory throughout the world, All who-, desire to have ! a share in. this memorial cathedral should communicate with the lion, organising secretary, Rev. C. iAskew, St. Mark's Vicarage, Wellington. —Advt. •

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