DR PARKER AND THE ARMY.

Evening Star, Issue 11696, 30 September 1902, Page 3

DR PARKER AND THE ARMY.

At the thanksgiving services for poaoe held in the City Temple, London, Dr Parker said ■ “Aa for our own army, words simply fail mo to express' my feelings about 1 : denying, uncomplaining, and eventually suo- , cessful work. They have been one of the 1 greatest armies in our history. Don’t be- , lieve any liars or slanderers about our army. [This is awkward for Mr W. T. Stead.] No woman, child, or weak man was ever treated by them or their colonial auxiliaries except with gentleness and forbearance.” In an elo-

quent passage he referred to the noble sacrifices made by the colonics. Those sacrifices must never be forgotten. ' They "must remain as monuments and reminiscences that trill stir and inspire the future. "Remember our colonists might have stayed at home, and stirred the fire, and gathered round them their little comforts and family joys. They did not do so. They said: 'We wall help the mother; we will be a strength to her in her hour of need.' Let us thank the ookmics, nnd recognise their sacrifices."