SPREYDON BAPTIST CHURCH.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15460, 13 December 1915, Page 4

SPREYDON BAPTIST CHURCH.

KOLL OF HONOUR UNVEILED

■At the conclusion of the evening serlice .1 esterday at the Spreydon Baptist Church, tho unveiling ceremony of a Roll of Honour was performed by the Rev. John Laird, the officiating ministor. At present the Roll contains 13 niunes of those who were connected with the church, most of them being old Sunday-school scholars. Sevelal more names will be added shortlv, when lull particulars are known of those who enlisted in Australia and elsewhere. The following are inscribed on the Roll at present:—W. I{. Bowdcu, H Bowden. R. Adcock. L. H. Adcock, \Y\ Lloyd, Henry Dixon. W. Dixon. ' W. Short. Harold Dixon. D. Handvside H McNicholl. W. Cant, and AV. jarman.' Of these W. R. Bowtlen and L. H. Adcock have been killed in action, AV. Lloyd 'has been invalided to an English hospital, and R. Adcock has been invalided back to Christeliurch. and was ; present at last evening's scr^ce. In his sermon. earlier,4n the evening, the Rev. Laird pointed out that tbTs crisis had given the British people a better and clearer idea of the relative value of things. Ho contrasted stricken Belgium with prosperous New Zealand, as an example, though it was an example furnished with the price of blood. There was much talk of conscription, he said, at present. If conscription was enforced it would teach us the true value of the righteousness of liberty. When one saw the way in which some men and women regarded the sacrifice being made for theni by our brave soldiers, it made one wonder whether they were worth lighting for at all. The great (struggle, however, was teachinir mos t people the lesson, not only of the relative ralue of things! but also the lesson of appreciation and gratitude.