PEACE SERVICES

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13930, 8 July 1919, Page 2

PEACE SERVICES

METHODIST CHURCH. i Aib the "Melhodisti Cliurch on. Sunday, thaihikisgiving 1 services foi pe'iu^ were cooduated by Rev. A. Miteliellv rnioirnttng; a.nd ervening- At the momaug fervicfei tihe choir siaiigl Jackson's "Te Deumi," and at the eiveaumg 1 Stiaiiner's.'^What Are. Thosie Arrayed 'in Whiiife ildhetiV' The eveningl service took 1 the form of a. memorial fcr the fallem, apprptpriato musici being rtetodered, whilsir. the Rev. G-. ■•Maltchell sang the sacred songl "The Oi'tiy of Rest." The preacher said all would feel -.grateful" *° Go^ thaitl peace had been decjlii'red after over four years of ihe> most tiitan|i:>3 atruggle the world hiad eiveir seen. It wasi fiititdiig 1 tiha.t, our juibdlaitions should begin with renderingl tlnanks to Almighty God. It wa.* not 'in a sipirit: of bootstkugi or rainj giory they rejoiioed, burtt with girat:- . tud'e and hjimiility. Wei reanenibered that, as a people we were nior | ■wiithowifc • feiult, and 'that should prevent us from becoming Pharosa,ical. Burtl wie were ponoud of the ideals and . t'r!adii!tiotn whith caiusjed us to eater the war. We. had stood for Right, Jußitice!, Freedom', and these bad. triuimipihed. Let them pra-y thaiti (bhe sacrifices miade had not been, in -vann, amd tha* the world might be cleaner, sweater, and brigthttiea- for. toumanohy Ithanj hereftoforfe. Theire was evidence that a begnntoiinlg had- beeiii made, and overdluia retfoirms were beingl undertatken with/earnestness. We were entering 1 anew erai and Society mus-t' be i-econM-rudted on a. posMve plan, of jiisrtace, eqwitly; and righit for all- Lee them; begtin with themselves, oasitlin^; ouit etviil from their own hearts, then ihaifc brighter dfeuy of which ith© WK)Ipheib wjroti© would dawn when "instead of 'the thorn should oonoe up> tilie ;. fir ttiree., a.nd inslfead of , the bi-iar tho myrtle tiree." - , At ithe etveniinig 1 servdcei the preacher dwelltt upon iprogress [oomrlng throttpli sittrug)«le, sitrife, and pern. That was. the, laiw in creaitiion, amdnatioTis 1 were undeft" the earnns laiw. The speaker pa;d a. Mgh tribute to Ihe wives and moth -. eirig who had so ptaltlienitly and hero^ ically suffered the sfcralin of anxiety, sepairationi, >nd sorixxw. Tc titiesw h"> would giive the seaitig of hotiomr. BWy Wardship suffered, and ©vary diiop of blood shed called upon; Us tb }ye worthy of the grant, .-tlrusit .■ bequealthed to iw v I^eti them liink Ithedr laibour* with .those who had fought to hritsg: an the ParMiamenft of Mainl, and 1 the Federaitiion "of the World. .