CHRISTIAN ORDER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22621, 26 April 1948, Page 6

CHRISTIAN ORDER

TE KARAKA SERVICE

ESSENTIALS OF PEACE For 20 years we met annually to commemorate the sacrifices of the men who fell in the 1914 18 war. But while we had these annual reminders of the cost of war, we did not protit by experience. Our conduct of affairs during that period led only to another war, and now we meet to mourn the loss of another generation of young men in a greater war than ever before," stated the Rev. P. H Blakiston, vicar of Te Karaka, in a crisp address at the Te Karaka Anzac Day ceremony held yes terday afternoon. The service was held before he VVaikohu War Memorial and was largely attended by townsmen and by residents of the nearby country area. A parade of returned servicemen of both world wars, Girl Guides, Brownies and members of the Boys’ Brigade, headed by tne P.B. Pipe Band, preceded the memorial service. In his address the vicar declared that the world stood in no need of a new plan for civilisation and the avoidance of wars The last two wars were not caused either by the greed of financiers, as some contended, or by clashes of rival ideologies. They were the direct result of a blind departure from the way of Christ, and the negation of Christian principles. The peoples of the world had turned from God, and forgotten their duty. In their blindness they had straved into the pit of war. "F the people of the world want peace, they need only turn back to God and follow the plan given for their guidance by Jesus Christ. In that plan lay all the essentials not only of peace but of contentment and salvation. Many beautiful wreaths were laid upon the base of the Waikohu memorial during and after the ceremony, and the “garden of remembrance” was thickly sown with poppies. SERVICE IN BERLIN (10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 25. Australian, New Zealand and British servicemen attended an Anzac Day service in Berlin’s Garrison Church conducted by an Australian, the Rev, H. Norman, who is staff chaplain for the British Army on the Rhine Headquarters.