THE WARRIOR SAINT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 251, 31 July 1940, Page 4

THE WARRIOR SAINT.

The spirit of St. George, the Warrior Saint, is marching abroad. Jt is inspiring hundreds of thousands of Englishmen on land, at sea and in the skies, says the “Montreal Star.” Never before has St. George’s lance been couched in so resolute a cause. Never before has his spirit so strengthened the hearts and minds of the nation for whom he stands the embodiment of honour and righteousness and the will and the power to defend the cause of freedom. To-day the modern paladins are marching as they have marched many times before beneath St. George’s banner. They are marching and they are sailing and they are flying against a foe lost to all sense of honour, of decency, of good faith. They are facing the vilest form of criminal desperation of which civilisation has record. But this very fact only serves to solidify the national will and so intensify (he national determination that this shall he the last time, because behind England in this resolution, equally united and equally determined, stand the combined forces of the mighty British Empire. Henceforward St. George nrust stand not only as England’s patron saint, hut as emblematic of that Empire’s determination to root out and destroy utterly the forces of tyranny, of unbridled murder, of dishonour and had faith and brute force and oppression, to the end that the people of the earth may in future live their lives and go thoii ways fearless and free, in the assurance that peace and order, honour and decency and goodwill shall onoe more rule in the hearts of men.