THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1945, 27 February 1919, Page 3

THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE.

AN INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY.

The war which is Just over h:is I<mj’’lll the world ihc sacredness of sacrifice.,. Kvery man who weal to ha I lie, ('very woman who sell I her menfolk to light, samlieed everyIhing. In many thousands of instances it was [he precious lives of men lhat were saerilieed. Vc( (here are till in this country la rye numhci's of people who have sacnliced nothing, in connection with this titanic conflict of armies. They have lived the same steady round of hfe dial I hey did hefore (he war: (hey have lost no dear ones, MifVered no financial hisses, indeed, many of (hem have profiled directly by the war and indirectly hy the deaths of (heir brave fellow-countrymen. It is not sugge.-Jod that these fortunate people achieved this immunity from saeriliee delihera I ely; ;i has been more in the nature of a calm );roy I'i - sion .on the old lines I hat (ms carried them H-atldess through limes of storm. And they arc as lhanid'ul as any at the happy lenirinaiion of the light between rig!:! ai<d wrong. The linn' has pas.-ed for I lie doing of great things hy lialves, or in a hole-and-corner way. Our lighters overseas have set a deathless example of that. Every!hing they did limy did witii all their might, and it behoves those who prospered Imre in safely while their soldiers fought and (lied, to carry on this noble spirit and to make mieri(iees in order to achieve greatly. The proposed cathedral is to he a memorial jo those line men who nerish-

id mi ;!clive service, :;;u la, thank nfI'eriinv In God i'nr the sifiV return of I lie, fiyhtiay nnm wlio were not slain in battle. tl is nn *<j>[><>iinmiy i’i>v individual <*!!’<>il nnd saerilieo. Tin 1 people of .New Zealand are p'V.-per-uii:-, (in* money is here: mid w!::»( liner menioi'ini in lirnve men eoedd he huill limn (Ids cal he.ira!,\nd if I In.-; enlliedrnl worl Inly eommemorales (lie deeds id' New Zealand s liemes il surely will ho llml. I'nr they have a i'aine ami yiory throii.nlinill I World. All who de-ire In have a share in lids ineinori.il calliedral should eniuimmieale with the lion, oryanisitur secretary, h’ev. (* F. Askew, Si, Mark's Wellington.