AT THE FRONT.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1915, Page 6

AT THE FRONT.

.I'IIKSBYTERIANS' SPLENDID RESPONSE. Auckland, Nov. ]!). 'I lie response made by the young men of the Presbyterian churches throughout the Dominion to the call for men for service at the front was referred to by the Kev. R. Inglis, of Parnell, at the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday morning. "Wherever there are shirkers," he said, "1 do not think thev are to be found in the churches. As a matter of fact, there is a great scarcity of young men in our churches at the present time, and the reason is that they have to do their duty for their King and country in the firing-line. If you want to find men nowadays there is only one place, and that is 011 the racecourse. 1 am proud of the fact that' the young men in our churches are now so few, because it shows that they at least are doing their duty." The speaker proceeded to emphasise the great need for men to overcome the unscrupulous enenly against whom we are now fighting. Tie recalled an incident related by the Rev. R. .T. Campbell, a prominent ecclesiastic in the Old Country, on his return from a visit to the Western front. ''You do not piny the game." he heard an English officer say to a captured German ofTioer. "Game, do you call it!" replied the lat ter. "We are not playing the game, we are out to win. You English have been playing the game long enough." "This," said the speaker, "shows that it is time that we realised tliat we are in a life arid death struggle for our very existence."