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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)

The excuse for this story is that it !• true and that it comes from Dunedin. In that town there is a city missionary who conducts the Bible instruction in the State schools. Last week he wu holding the last class before holidays, And concluded with a general prayer, which the children repeated after fcim, "God father, mother, teachers, and scholars," "he said, and dutifully the infants repeated.it, "and the soldiers on the battlefield," he went on; "and the soldiers on the battlefield," came til* mechanical murmur of the children; "and Army chaplains"; "and Charlie Chaplain" came the response unhesita> tingly and in perfect good faith. Th# laughter that followed did not wm« from the children, and; t»s probably accepted by them as another evidence >4f the iaseoMguentUlity o{ grown-up*,