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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8

into some harbour, like the four great beasts, full of eyes before and behind, lest the lurking danger come upon it unawares.

"All this for the defence of men and women, and of the holiest and highest for which they stand. It will often speak to us of service and of sacrifice, of times when the burning moment breaks and the battle is joined; and when men are stripped for action and clamorous sounds and shouts of command are all about them; and the drift of acrid powder smoke streams round the turrets, and sometimes men are groaning and sometimes they are bearing their stricken limbs as well as may be; and all because sacrifice is the only thing by which this poor muddled world in its present distress can find its salvation

"So let this Ensign, which the primitive mind could never have appreciated, conjure up in your minds and in your imaginations the Ideals and principles which it has borne against the fierceness of our enemies, and then you can never forget that in your own lives. as well as in those of all who have served under it. sei'vice and sacrifice are the pre-eminent demand which Almighty God makes upon every one of us.

"So then let this Ensign speak," concluded the Archdeacon. "It will be instinct with power, and we shall be able to say with Browning, 'Here and here did England help me—how shall I help England?"*