"THE SPIRIT OF OUR FATHERS."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 295, 11 December 1914, Page 6

"THE SPIRIT OF OUR FATHERS."

Archbishop Wright, in the "Sydney

Anglican Diocesan Magazine" for .December, makes further reference t.o the war. "It is a struggle," he says, "in which we can only turn to the * God of Battles to throw his swore into our scale.- But through til the wearing atrocities of these desperate days there emerges even plaLvsr ev: dence that the spirit of our fathers lives within their sons to-day. That marvellous infantry of the Peninsula and the Crimea, whose fame is writ for ever on the pages of Napier and others stands to.day on the. bar i-f ought fields of Flanders, indomitable, irrepressible, fearing nothing oxce-pt' to dishonor their flag. Similarly at sea, N those brave men who we it down in the storm off South America, lighting against odds, and never •striking their flag, are the same old breed Who fought and died with Nelson. The race lives true to type. Such thoughts should hearten even the most pessimistic amongst us."