INDOMITABLE SPIRIT
HOLDING EMPIRE INVINCIBLE. ADDRESS TO HOME GUARD. The service at yesterday's Home Guard parade at the Hood Aerodrome took the form of an Empire Day address by the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich. Archdeacon Rich pointed out that what held the Empire invincible was its indomitable spirit. By all the rules of war they should have been □eaten long ago. If that happened the country would be a Nazi vassal state and ho would be in a concentration camp because of his calling. But the .spirit of the people of Britain and the Empire rose above defeat. It made defeat impossible. They were learning that the right road was not the easy road. Too long the world had drifted in the direction of effortless ease and comfort. That day was done. To adopt the line of least resistance was to be no better than a tramp who shaped his course with no other .motive than io keep the wind always on his back. The British Commonwealth had done with that philosophy. The faith and the spirit of their forefathers were alive again. He instanced the scorn of the Apostle Paul for the easy way and said that the measure of the Empire's success would be the measure in which it emulated the Apostle's example.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 4
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216INDOMITABLE SPIRIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 4
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