FORMATION Or CHARACTER.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9

FORMATION Or CHARACTER.

For throe decades prior to the outbreak of the war, he said, toys were going through their studies, and engaging in sports, unconscious of the menace of a distant military autocracy. During that period they were taught by great-hearted masters the simple maxim of duty, the, maxim that had ■brought the race through great difficulties. A school was more than a, collection of stones, bricks, and wood. A good school like this had a wonderful influence. It taught solf-rcspect, duty to God and man, and so when the call of the Empire came the boys who had had the privilege o* it nnd similar schools had no difficulty in deciding •where the lino of duty lay. Their reason was not "sicklied o'er by the pale cast of thought," but they responded in a way that was certain because their whole nature was attuned to the appeal. , ' Theira was no desire for glory, but they came forward because in their hearts was the simple ; love of their own people, their own homes, and their own country. It was customary to speak of the "unreturning brave," but these ■would return agnin and again, who, for King and country, left (all they held clear and Buffered untold hardships, because those they left after them saw that ill this memorial they were not forgotten. Ho'recalled that the distinguished father of the distinguished General with them that day had opened the school on that ground; They were singularly fortunate that he was able to carry on his revered father's work, and fortunate that their Governor-Gen-eral himself played a great part in tho conflict that cost dear in blood and treasure, but whereby we enjoyed something priceless, our freedom.