CANON TAYLOR’S ADVICE.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1917, Page 2

CANON TAYLOR’S ADVICE.

Given at Greymouth Farewell

At the send-off to the 28 h Reinforcements at Gceymoath on Thursday afternoon the speakers included Chaplain Captain Taylor, who has been invalided home after going through the Gallipoli campaign. The Rev Canon T, F. Taylor said : You are going out on the great adventure. You have heard much about patriotic motives and your duty to your country, but whea you reach the front you will be glad ycu went—you will see the desolation of ruined villages, women and children the victims of enemy shells, and other things too dreedful to talk about. You will be glad you are men, and you will find yon are doing men’s work. You must first go through some weeks of

training, and you may find it irksome. You may growl about the endless repetition of military drill, but in the weeks that follow you will prove its usefulness. In your superiority you will criticise and find fault—it is human nature so to do—but in the end you will laugh over the things you once grumbled at. You will learn the value of comforts which hitherto you have deemed necessities—the Boft bed, a meal on a table, and the choice of meals. You will lose your fads and will treasure comfort. May I venture to offer you advice ? I am diffident to do so, because, after after all, experience is the best school. Study to become hard, so that when stiff times come you may endure. You may have to facs nights without sleep, days of wet aud cold. Your training will make you as hard as nails. Go through it with that assurance. Study to endure ; it ia so easy to give in. Some men shirk. Hang on till you can do so no longer. This is the man that counts. Be cheerful, so will your life be easier, so will you best help others. Grumbling ip. cheap. The happy man is worth a fortune. And, lastly, put your whole "trust in God, Who alone can and will keep you. May He enable yon to play the man and bring you safely back.