TEN YEARS OF PEACE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 8

TEN YEARS OF PEACE

ANZAC SERVICES

HAVE WE DONE WITH WAR?’*

Day^we' e “alf Presbyterian churches yesterday The morning service at ic Church. Parnell. was attended ”h' ■their Excellencies the Governor-Cp* FerSUSSO "’ « S • 1^9 1 "as a large congrecati including many returned officers men who wore decorations. M His Excellency read the and the choir sang as an “Land of Hope end Glory- ’ ieiE “Have We Bone With War— ... the subject taken for his address w the Rev. > Macdonald Aspland W spoke of the national heroism which had been snch feature of the Great War. s The congregation had assenl.Lj that day to give thanks for IoG, of peace, and to pray that th prophecy of Isaiah. “Thev shall their swords into ploughsharee Z, their spears into pruning-hook. neither shall they learn war more." had at length come- to nZ Mr. Aspland called attention t 0 the economic waste of war. “One is driven to the conchuio. that our standing armies and m navies give the lie to onr bo»st!I civilisation.” he said. “Indoubteffl! they are contrary to the spin t civilisation.” The speaker concluded by referriu to the work of the League of Xations and the American proposals to ou' law war. which Britain, as one of most advanced Powers, should sutk port. At the conclusion of the service Up organist, Mr. G. Harold Hart,/ played the “Dead March.” and foe buglers from the Seddon Memori, Technical College Cadets sounded th. “Last Post.” The morning service at the Mount Albert Presbyterian Church, which was conducted by the Rev. W. p Morison-Sutherland. was attended h> the Mayor and <*ouncillors of thborough.