THE BUILDERS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3012, 18 March 1926, Page 4

THE BUILDERS

Two stories to illustrate the gospel of work and service were told by His Excellency the GovernorGeneral (Sir Charles Eergusson), when addressing the King’s College Cadets at Auckland. He related how a. young Army officer was sent into the country of the Blue Nile many veers ago on a political mission. lie went into a territory where there were no white men, and worked to get the confidence of the native tribes. The climate was a very trying one, but he was a cheery soul and never lost heart. When asked if lie was tired of.it, lie replied that he was making history. People would laugh at this. The other day His Excellency read that a huge dam had been opened in the territory where this young officer had worked. This dam would water 3,000,000 acres. The young officer’s work had made way for the dam; he made history. The other story was of an old stone-cutter who sat at his work, near the site where a big cathedral was being built (reports the New Zealand Herald). This old man said he was building the cathedral. He was the stone-cut-ter, and without him the cathedral could not be built, although hundreds of others were employed in helping to build it. “This is the way to look at it,” Sir-Charles stated. “To remember that all of us are building a mosaic of Empire work to which we all bring our contributions. Some will work on a beautiful pattern, others doing only the border work. However humble it is let it be good and honest woik

. . . . You may be able to bring a big contribution to the work of Em-pire-building, but whatever you do will either help to build it up or hinder it.”