"DID NOT DIE IN VAIN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 9

"DID NOT DIE IN VAIN."

SERVICE AT KING'S COUJBGE.

Despjte the very unsettled condition of the world to-day, those who gave their lives in the Great War did not die in vain, declared Archbishop Averill, when speaking at the Anzac Day service in the King's College memorial chapel last evening. The chapel was packed with present pupils, old boys, and friends of the school. The men and youth of to-day, said his Grace, could not honour those who had gone if they took from their hands in the great relay race of life the torch which they held and carried it on to the goal —the abolition of war. The present boys of the college should not copy the slackers in life, but should take their cue from those who had done something worth while, those who had borne witness faithfully and well. The purpose of real education was not to prepare the young to make a living, but rather to fit them out to live—nobly and unselfishly—and to regard life as an opportunity for service. If the old boys who had given their lives had thought only of life as making a living they would have placed profiteering before duty, but they had not done so. They had not died in vain if their example and the example of the host of others who had sacrificed themselves, helped the world to-day to realise the futility and senselessness of choosing war to settle anything. War was no good to anyone except the profiteers. "Set yourselves while young to find a substitute for war," advised Archbishop Averill. "The struggle for peace and peace conditions requires as much bravery, grit and manliness as the horrors of war. War is intrinsically wrong and cannot be sanctioned by God. There must be support to the League of Nations by all Christians; otherwise the ethics of the jungle must prevail." For the Act of Remembrance the lights in the chapel were put out. Following the reading of the roll of honour, buglers sounded the Last Post and the Reveille.