MILITARY TRAINING.
- A CHRISTIAN IDEAL. , . " BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS .ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Rec. March 11, ,0.42' a.m.) ' v Sydney, March 10. Bishop Stretch, in his oponing address at the Anglican Syn'odj Newcastle, dealing-with questions of national dofonce, said:— • "If .the community ■ expects ".that in si time- of danger','all ;able-bodied; men should rally to their country's, call, it;becomes tho Community's duty, to give to all able-bodied men such, training in arms a$ should save their courage from being more suicide. I beliove that a system of, training .could be plannedthat would dp away with larrikinism and add to the physique of tho race.
" We do not wish; if war comes, to see our manhood dio for lacli of knowledge; so it Beems. to ;me that, universal'graining may ■well be (regarded by. Christian mon as. tho strongest assurance that wo shall not bo attacked." ! ; . ■ ~
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7
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138MILITARY TRAINING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 7
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