PATRIOTISM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1739, 21 July 1917, Page 3

PATRIOTISM.

APPEAL BY FATHER CORLEY. At the welcome home to Private Wilton, at Orona Downs on Thursday, Eat her Corley made a thrilling appeal for a continued and rejuvenated patriotism. He said: “A country good enough to Jive in is certainly good enough to fight for. We honour the Union Jack because it stands for our country, It was whilst ministering under this glorious Hag that one of my predecessors, the good Father Dore, well beloved in this "district and everywhere, was wounded. It was whilst ministering under this (lag that another fellow priest of mine, the noble Father McMcnamin, was killed in action. It was whilst fighting under the Union Jack that thousands of our boys —‘the bones of our bones, the flesh of our flesh’ —have shed their blood most freely. They were wounded and they died to protect our homes, our wives, and our children, Patriotism, says the great Cardinal Mercier, of Belgium, is a kind of a religion. Let ns stir afresh this love of country that is ever within us, let us fan it into flame. Fellow citizens, the inevitable day of victory is bound to come. The dawn of that long-wished-for day is already looming on the horizon. May God speed the day on which, thanks to heroic little Belgium, tenacious* England, generous France, chivalrous Italy, enterprising America, free Russia, our nations’ brows will be crowned with the laurels of victory.” (Loud and continued applause),.