THE FIGHTING PARSON.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 98, 26 April 1916, Page 6

THE FIGHTING PARSON.

The “Quarterly Register” has some significant sayings of soldiers. One is to this effect: Major Duncan Stang, when the war broke out, was a third year divinity student and acting as assistant to an Edinburgh minister. He enlisted as a private, but his soldierly qualities were soon manifest, and he rose rapidly. In one engagement, after all his senior officers were out of action, he took command and handled the men so ably that General Joffre took notice of him, and bestowed on him the Cross of the Legion of Honour. He is new major of his regiment. Recently some friends said to him that after such stirring experiences he would never be likely to return to such “humdrum work as preaching,’ but the Major replied: “jWell, if this war were over, and I got cut of it with honour, : you wouldn’t see my heels for dust as I went back to the preaching.”