ONE-TREE HILL MEMORIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 292, 7 December 1920, Page 9

ONE-TREE HILL MEMORIAL.

O'" the KUltor.) Sir, —Tho proposal to erect a monument on One-tree Hill in memory of those who gave their lives in defence of our land and liberty i> very right and proper, but the form of the memorial lias probably been decided on unthinkingly. This is a Christian land; the great dead we are honouring were Christians, of many sects no douht, but all adherents to the creed of which the symbol is a cross. The nbi'lisk is of pagan origin; how incongruous therefore that the names and derdfl of Christian soldiers be passed down the after years by a heathen monument. The first cross wae set on a hill, and remaine for all time a sign of Him who gave His life to save the world. What, then, would be more significant than a gigantic cross on the summit of Onftree Hill, with arms outstretched as in protection of our city, keeping before us our faith in the lirst great sacrifice and ever reminding us of the men who died for us on the battlefield? At the same time let it show the Oriental heathens who throng our shops and shipping that we are not ashamed of the symbol of our religion.—l am, etc., SOLDIER.