TE NGUTU-O-TE MANU.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1915, Page 4

TE NGUTU-O-TE MANU.

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT NEW PLYMOUTH. VETERANS ON PARADE. , " Last Tuesday was the forty-seventh' anniversary of the engagement, fit Te %utu-o-te-Mami, when Majoi" von Teinpsky, Captain Buck, Captain Palmer, Lieutenant Hunter, Lieutenant Hastings, and a number of the rank ,and file were killed by Titokowaru'i men. Yesterday, a service in commemoration of those who fell in tt« 'engagement was held at St. Mary* Church, New iPlymouth. A. drarco. parade was held by the Veteran* and members of the Defence Rifle Club, who [assembled in strong force, and marched < from the Post Office to St. Mary's. On arrival at the church, the veterans ana riflemen passed in between a guard, comprised of a number of Boy Scouts. There was a large congregation, and th« service was an appropriate one. The vicar, the Rev. A. H. Colvill*. preached from Phillippians" 11., 13, 14 "Forgetting the things that are behind • . . . I press toward tho mark." In the couKe of his sermon ho said, tht I thing that makes for success Jn the rac* was to press toward the mark with | steady eyes fixed on the goal it waa hoped to reach. The glory of the past only kept back those wft/> made iroridly success the winning post. Make God the mark and Christ the pNze, and afi that is best and bravest and truest and dearest in one's earlier years. All that one has Icjved and prized will be experienced, again increased a hundredfold In power and beauty and value. One should not let bitter or happy memories of bygone years make us useless in the present and apathetlo towards, the future. We should not ignore the great deeds of the past, btft ever call them to mind, and should ba inspired -by them. Were not tae Unflish now inspired for their great struggle not only by their own belief in the future, but by the memory of great ! deeds done and great sacrifices made in. history 1 Continuing, the preacher said: "I am speaking this day to men, and the cons of men, who have helped to incrcato England's reach and strengtliwi her arm. Some of you have come" hj«« into the presence of God, the great hdldj*together of the past, present, and future, to honor the memory k of comrades who fell in a bygone battle—little known outside this country—who gave their lives for England's honor and for England's life, no less than are thsir sons and grandsons who are %hting Jn Europe to-day. Our history is fuß of such records—often little known, scar ely remembered. Almost every land under the sun contains the grave* of Englishmen whose names, never men. i fcioned in despatch, are Writ larga in 'the invisible scroll of England's greatness, and in the book of God's rem*™branee. So should the names of tfiose who fell in the fight of Te Xgutu-o te Manu—the gallant Von Tempakv, Palmer and Buck, Hunter and Hastings, Russell and Lumsden, with their comrade:,—be freshly remembered' that day when the Last Post is sounded in their hon0!lr Let those who are young listen to, and obey, the call to sacrifice that is singing out across fne world to-day, that they may store up for themselves glorious memories which will be their comfort and inspiration in yean to come, when others who have refused will hold their manhodd eheap." At the end of the service,the Last Post was sounded by Bugler Walker.