TO THOSE WHO FELL.

Shannon News, 30 July 1929, Page 1

TO THOSE WHO FELL.

WORK OF "TOC H." Fifty-six now home and overseas branches have been added to the Toe H movement during the year. Th< Prince of Wales, as patron, recently performed the ceremony of lighting thelamps of maintenance. "I am not here to-night to make a long speech," said the Prince, "bnt to light lamps—no fewer than 50 lamps of maintenance for new oversea and home branches. This is twice the number won in any previous year. Yet J hear, and am glad to do so, that tin; standard of work won them has gone resolutely up. I will just mention very briefly one or two points.

"First, with regard to the Dominions overseas. •In South Africa tucre are now more members of Toe H thari there were in the whole society sis. years ago. Colonel Grant has just gone out to South Africa to continue the splendid building-up work which wa.v done by the Rev. H. B. Ellison. Tak,' the United States. In June the Rev. Pat Leonard is coming home from that great country and is leaving behind him a 'Mark' in Washington, a iinn lot of groups round Philadelphia and sonic first-class work for seagoing boys in New York City. From this it musi spread, and we believe it will spread under American leadership. "Then South America—'Tubby ./layton spent last summer there on behalf of ,Toc H.- I saw its beginnings r Buenos Aires in lii2s and attended i meeting there. Among the first ■ruits is a fine new house at Bahia Bianca, and we are all of one mind in 'hanking the British railways in Ar gintina for this and other fine help that they have given u.s. Welfare Work for Migrants.

"Passing to India, Toe II is viry well. I do not think that Toe II lad actually got as far as India when f was there, and the best tribute to he work being done in India is that nst December the Viceroy decided to join and was initiated in Calcutta. I'lien, Ceylon supported the endowment cV.nd/vcry well. "Further, there is the welfare work 'or migrants. That is a very import■nt object and does real good at a ■ritical time in. a man's career. I am •ure. lint all this work will not bo fasted. The setting up of a complete ■cam of overseas commissioners for Poc H is an excellent plan. Every young mar. who goes overseas is an unatfur ambassador responsible for the •ood name of his race.

"In Europe there is a very signifi•ent beginning of Toe H in Germany. That is a development full of very ;rcat interest and cannot possibly fan to do good. I welcome it very heartily. I'hc endowment fund stands at £64,500. md the hapipest feature is the fact that the members themselves have done -;o much toward it. The money keeps on coming in. Last week £IOOO was given for Toe H in Liverpool in memory of a son in the Liverpool Scottish."

In the course of the singing of the Festival Hymn of . Light there was placed on the platform the Prince's own lamp of maintenance which he presented to Toe H in memory of his friends killed in the war. Since the lamp was first lit by the Prince at a Guildhall ceremony in December, 1922, it has been kept in All Hallows Church, where i/. stauls perpetually burning. With a long taper, which he lit from lis own lamp, the Prince kindled the other lamps, and they were in' turn before him by a. member of he new branch, accompanied' by. an)thcr bearing the branch banner. House for Overseas Section.

An anonymous donor has ina.de Toe If a present of __, a new Talbot House, vhich is to be an overseas centre. The pecial object -of the overseas .section; s to look after young men who go out iTom the Homeland to make their fortune oJsewliciv and to protect their, .gainst "loneliness, discouragement !.:ul einbittenuent."

The building now presented has the dvantagc of "being near the ancient duireh of All Hallows, by the Tower which, as the spiritual centre of the aiovcment, is honoured by keeping tin original Lamp of Maintenance, rrom this lamp the Prince of Wales, a* patron, has lit all the hundreds of similar lamps now burning in many parts of the world as a symbol of service for remembrance. The new premises, No. 42, Trinity Square, consist of a line old city man sion which has long served for business uses. The party leases are falling in, and in a few years' time the whole will be at the movement's dispoSfll — a valuable freehold near to the heart of the city which has already been so generous with funds and personal service. There was an example of this the other evening when a breedeast appeal brought a cheque from Hit Charles Hyde for £IO,OOO, in addition to the handsome gift he made lately for clearing off a year's debit balance.