TERRIBLENESS AND TRAGEDY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 15 June 1915, Page 2

TERRIBLENESS AND TRAGEDY.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S MESSAGE. Just before he left London on his way to the front, the Bishop of London received a notable letter wishing him god-speed from the Archbishop of Canterbury. “You have,” the Primate wrote,“the high privilege of carrying to the men who have been bravely and buoyantly maintaining, under terrific strain, our Empire’s honour and good faith and what we believe to be the cause of righteousness, the Easter message of good cheer . . . Good Friday and Easter do mean the victory of sacrifice, victory over even death itself. “I own to a little envy of you, for I should have prized deeply for myself the opportunity which is now yours. You know th e reason for our decision that I must not do it at this time. . . . “Tell those brave men from me and from ns all that they are never fer a single hour outside our thoughts and prayers. . . And our joint prayer will not only be for safety and success in the trenches or cn the seas; it is for all that helps to make us fitter

ter for fulfilling the great trust wherein God has mad e us abroad and at home to be comrades. “No man among us all can come out of this great war unaffected by it for good or ill , . . When we recall it a few years bonce we shall find . . . that with all its strain upon every fibre of our life and all its terribleness and all its tragedy of sorrow It has been fashioned by God Into a chapter of good, and that our manhood and womanhood have emerged robuster and worthier from the fiery test. Whether that will be so depends upon how we bear ourselves In those great weeks."