SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 956, 26 April 1930, Page 9

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

SERVICE AT TOWN HALL MEANING OF SACRIFICE “If you are going to enter into your vocation simply with the object of making money, you are going to bring about the next war,” said Canon W. Fancourt in an address to about 1,200 pupils of the secondary schools at a service at the Town Hall at 1.30 p.m. The Deputy-Mayor, Cr. A. J. Entrican, presided. Canon "W. Fancourt urged that the lesson of sacrifice embodied in the Great War should be learned by the generation now growing up, and applied to their lives in. order to prevent, if possible, any repetition of the disastrous conflict. If another war came it w-ould mean the end of European civilisation. Further conflicts could not be prevented by conference if the hearts of the people were not changed. He pointed out the important bearing which -the ideals and mode of life of the children now grow-ing up would have in this respect. The lessons were read by the Rev. W. A. Constable and the Rev. W. Walker. The congregation was led in prayer by the Rev. Evan R. Harries. The hymns were Kipling’s Recessional, “O God Our Help in Ages Past,” “O Valiant Hearts,” and “For All the Saints.”