THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15369, 28 August 1915, Page 9

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

"Sermon preached at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 22nd, 1915, at memorial " service for the men of Now Zealand and Australia who have fallen in the war.] But in this great gathering to-night wo want another note besides that. We must have the triumph note for those whose self-sacrifice lias meant so much to their country and to us who honour them. Among the lives laid down could bo found, as always, bright examples of the young leadership, to which we had looked for upholding among their fellows the spirit whieU sets manliness upon the Barest basis, the basis of personal loyalty to Christ, l'or those lives and for the footprints which they have left upon the sands of time, wo give praise to God to-day. But it would be unnatural, untrue, to claim for all who thus gave their lives to the country's cause the character of stainless purity, or of the saintlineaa which we sing in our hymns. bomo ot them, perhaps many of them, were not saints at all. They were manly saints of the greatest Empire in the world. They were bravo and buoyant, with plenty of spirit. They need, as we shall need, forgiveness and cleansing, and new opportunity, and they arc in their Father's keeping, and He knows and cares:— Blow trumpets, oil your exnltatiom, blow For never shall their auwolcd presence lack; I see them muster in a gleaming row With ovor-youthful brows that nobler show; Wo find in our dull road their shining track; In every nobler mood We feel the Orient of their spirit glow. Part of our life'# unalterable good.