THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 March 1919, Page 5

THE SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE.

o AN INDIVIDUAL OPPORTUNITY. The war which is just over has taught th eworld the sacreclness of sacrifice. Every man who went to battle, every w,oman who 'Sent her menfolk to fight sacrificed something. In many thousands of instances it was the precious lives of men that were sacrificed. Yet there are still in this country large numbers of people who have sacrificed nothing in connection with the titanic conflict of armies. They have lived the same steady round of life that they did before the war; they have lost no dear ones, suffered no financial losses; indeed, many of them have profited directly by the war and indirectly by the deaths of their brave fellow-countrymen. It is not suggested that these fortunate people achieved this immunity from sacrifice deliberately; it has been more in the nature of a c£lm progression on the old lines that has carried him scathless through times of storm. And they ar cas thankful as any at the happy termination of the fight between right and wrong. The time has passed for the doing of great things by halves or in a hole-and-corner way. Our fighters over seas have set a deathless example of that. Everything they did they did with all their might, and it behoves those who prospered here in safety while their Soldiers fought and died to carry on this noble spirit and to make sacrifices in order fo achieve greatly. The proposed cathedral to be a memorial to those fine men who perished on active service, and a thanks offering to God for the safe return of the fighting men ho were not slain in battle. It is an opportunity for individual effort and sacrifice. The people of New Zealand are prosperous, the money is here, and what finer memorial to brave men could be built than this cathedral? And if this cathedral worthily commemorates the deeds of New Zealand's heroes it surely will be that for they have a fame and glory throughout the world. All who de sire to have a share in this memorial cathedral should communicate with the honorary organising secretary, Rev. C. F. Askew, St. Mark's Vicarage, Wellington.