THE END-WHEN? HOW?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 179, 2 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE END-WHEN? HOW?

ii.'.iin! Our Britain uprisen in tin splendour Of your white wrath at treacheries vile; Roused from your sleep, lecome once more defender Of those high things which make ii F e worth while!

Now, God be thanked for even such a wakening From the soft dream of peace in selfish ease, If it but bring about the great heartquickening, Of which are born the larger liberties.

Ay, better such si rousing up from slum. l>er; Bettor this fight for His High Empery: Better —e'en though our fair sons without number Pave with their lives the road to victor/.

But—Britain! Britaiu! What if it be written, On the great scrolls of Him Who holds the ways That to the dust the foe shall not be smitten Till unto Him wc pledge redeemed days?

Till until Him we turn—in deep soulsorrow, Fur all the past that was so stained and dim, For all the present ills —and for a morrow Founded and built and consecrate to Him.

Take it to heart! This ordeal has its meaning; By no fell chance has such a horror come. Take it to heart!—nor count indeed on winning, Until tho lesson has tome surely home.

Take it to heart! —nor hope to find assuagement Of this vast woe, until, with souls subdued, Stripped of all less things, in most high engagement, We seek in Him the One and Only tiood.

Not of our own might shall this tribulation Pass, and once more to earth hi pea-c restored; Not tiil we turn, in solemn consecration, Wholly to Hiin, our One and Sovereign 'Lord. —John Oxenham in the Londoi "Daily Telegraph."