Toc H

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 51, 3 July 1931, Page 5

Toc H

Broadcast Service TOC H service of thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral at 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 5, will be broadcast by 2Y¥A. The preacher will be the Rey. Canon Percival James. The service will be in memory of Captain William Henry Dillon Bell, M.P., son of Sir Francis and Lady Bell, to whom the Toc-H Wellington branch dedicated their lamp of maintenance. Captain Bell was the first member of Parliament to volunteer and the first to make the supreme’ sacrifice, Toc EH in war-time was "Hyeryman’s Club," whose motto, "All rank abandon ye who enter here," brought officers and men alike into friendship ir-

respective of class or creed. who mounted from the welcome of its open door to the allowed communion of its upper room. It was started again on a modest seale in 1919-1920 in order to recapture the war's spirit of comradeship in common service, an@ to pass it on to the younger generation for the greater task of peace. Two years from this beginning, the tiny experiment had been repeated throughout the length of England, and within five years it had girdled the earth and overleapt the bounds of the British race. It now has 841 branches scattered throughout the world. From the first, Toc H has tried to he a family whose members-whether aitached to a Christian denomination or not-endeavour to live their lives according to Christian principles and "to challenge their generation to seek in all things the mind of Christ." The ideas underlying Toc H are as old as history itself-fellowship and service. Hach member in Toe H pledges himself to fellowship with other men and to the service of those-less fortunate than he. " Its members are drawn from all ranks of society, from all Christian denominations, all schools of thought and political parties, for it is not primarily an ex-service society, but a club for every man, in which youth now takes the greater part. Toc H remembers the past, but looks forward to the future in hope and confidence.