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Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 122, 6 March 1919, Page 2

One of the chaplains who addressed the Presbyterian General Assembly at Christchurch was responsible for its members—indulging in unrestrained laughter, in which the Moderator was unable to restrain from joining A chaplain was telling how the soldiers in the Palestine showed interest in ancient sacred relics, and narrated that a guide, pointine to an eastern lamp, told a party of men that the lamp had been burning continuously for eight hundred years. “It will damn well burn no longer,” an Australian soldier had said, at the same time extinguishing the sacred flame. Tho use of the trooper’s actual language took the Assembly so much by surprise that members simply let themselves go,” This paved the way for another outspoken remark. The padre had been talking about Samson’s feat with the gates of Gaza, and after the talk a soldier came along to him and after referring to the gate story, ho remarked, “ Good God, padre, you don’t expect us to swallow that!”