HE LIT A LAMP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1940, Page 3

HE LIT A LAMP

FOUNDING OF TOC H. A young man died at 25 during the Great War years. There is nothing startling in that. Thousands of men died at 25 in those dreadful years. They died, and were forgotten by the world, rcmembred only in perhaps one or two sorrowinghomes. They had lived their little lives and had gone the way to dusty death, and even if they had been good soldiers, the war machinery ground on relentlessly; the living were more use than the dead, so the dead were soon out of mind. This young man was Gilbert Talbot. He was the son of that great scholar and humble soul Bishop Talbot: whose homo at Rochester was the centre of many loyalties. The son was like the father. Deeply and superbly spiritual he was also practical. He was a dreamer but he was never idle. His heart went out to all who suffered, but he was not sentimental. When the war came Gilbert ’Talbot found a job for himself. He did it with heart and soul. He carried the message of Jesus into the lives of men who prayed one day and died the next. There was something about him which made his goodness attractive, something which made men love him, and believe in him. and believe in the word he had for them. Then he was killed, and his work should have ceased. but instead, it really only began, for Tubby Clayton founded Toe H to his memory, and now • the rare spirit of that young soldier is a power in the lives of thousands in every continent who live the life of the lamp.