THE SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 10

THE SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND

AMERICAN CONSUL'S WORDS TO CHILDREN “DELIVER US FROM INTERNATIONAL HATRED’’ Dominion Special. . Auckland, November 11. A glowing tribute to New Zealand was paid by the American Consul, Mr. W. F. Boyle, in an address to children at'air Armistice Day ceremony. •“The outstanding impression,’.’-he said, “that'your country makes on. the 'guest within 'your' gates is that New Zealand is. a wonderfully clean country—a. beautiful, clean, green country inhabited by a clean race of people who speak Hie English language with exceptional purity.. and whose honesty; of purpose and wholesomenew of thought needs-must spring from hearts that, are clean- .Do you realise what. a .splendid start your , new country has toward the ideals of all .. true greatness; that, even as your .soil -, refuses to. harbour venomous traditions,' you--have no • traditional enemy?, ..And yet fiow proudly may you recall that, v.Phout a traditional enemy,,,-with, the , field of actual hostilities, thousands of, leagues .re.moyed from your shores, when - the. houf.was .at hand- to.test your loyalty... to your great Empire, there Was no quibbling, no hesitation, no delay-. You poured forth your blood and treasure without stint;, you did .your- .duty ’ so'. nobly, sol .thoroughly,, so', generously;. t|iat thp . voiqe. of the world 1 has never , been raised ex?epi -in praise ,o f . the spirit-of ~ New'Zealand. ’/;', ' -... "Young men and' young.'women, . you. ire the spirit of New Zealand. Her future is in your hands. Older heads than yours are guiding her destinies todayphut" in few'-'years the- task Will then yOti ;will -find your- i self''-confronted with grave ■■ •problems.' say,- -' with ‘ material things, am' that these material things have a tendency., to bring about ill-feeling with other people’s.' Thus' confronted.: with these material things, may you give heed to the admonition of Christ Himself to ‘render unto Caesar .that which is Caesar’s and unto the Lord that which -is the Lord’s’.”. -i-S-May',. you - treat, a/material thing for what it is. May you meet it > with stern; material measures if necessary, j be: may you-refuse to permit the material thing to steal into your hearts and j plant 'the-seed of ’ hatred against another people. May the cleanness of your minds ’ and the bigness of your hearts prevail. : “What better, time than this,” asked. Mr; Boyle, “as yo'u' : stand in the presence of your dead, in the shadow of the,; memory of the sacrifices' of your, fathers < dnd brothers and take stock of . your glorious heritage, to set your face to I your future with hearts as clean, as big and as unselfish as the hearts, of these j dead, who died that you ..might carry on.?. Finally,-in this moment of silent memory, I,t -us. ask of. the - Heavenly, Father .to lead us not into the temptation-of, vain, boasting, but to deliver us from -the evil of international hatred and to help us io always remember that-it is His and not-, ours., that , is the power and the glory.”-