“GO YE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.”

New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1919, Page 7

“GO YE AND TEACH ALL NATIONS.”

si: I Speaking as chairman at the gathering at Riverton on the occasion of the farewell to Very Rev. P. Murphy, , prior to his departure on a visit to the Old Country, Mr. 11. McFeeley (Tuatapere) gave the following interesting example of the universality of the Catholic Church: —How wonderful is Mother Church. Hero in the 20th century, how has that command been carried out: Just a little earlier than last year New Zealand; soldiers knelt one day in a little French church in that -old, old land of the Pharoahs. An English regiment was going into action, and this was their last opportunity of visiting a church. In those half a thousand soldiers were English Tommies, Seaforth Highlanders, Connaught Rangers, New Zealanders, Australians, French, Syrians, Arabians, Indians from Central India, Soudanese in their picturesque war dress —-representatives of almost every x-ace and colour under the sun. i How truly and really has that Divine command been obeyed—“Go ye and teach all nations.” As the missionary Irish priest, acting as chaplain, pronounced the Benediction over that varied congregation, one felt that; the age of miracles was not past. I tell you this to show what the world does owe to those who travelled to the ends of the earth for their Master’s sakc.Ms?^^-