LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 22 February 1916, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

"WORTHY SONS OF THE EMPIRE."

ADDRESS BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

A TRIBUTE TO OVERSEAS • SOLDI JLRS.

LONDON, Feb. 21. The, Archbishop of Canterbury addressed a large congregation of oversea soldiers and others at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. He said he was glad of the opportunity of addressing the Australians, New' Zealanders and Canadians, who were worthy sons of the Empire. The whole world was filled with admiration for these young citizen soldiers, and their deeds of prowess were proving the dauntlessness of' Christian manhood. While the Canadians were, in April, earning imperishable honors on ' the bloodstained battlefield of Flanders, the men from the vast Commonwealth and Dominion in the Southern Sea were scaling the cliffs of Gallipoli, under .a fearful fire, displaying sheer personal bravery that Jiad since been growing in wondrousness. The Dominionites had been unhesitatingly glad to make the sacrifice, and to continue the strengthening of the bond which unites in a solid phalanx the men ond women of the Empire in their purposeful resolve. "We are living," said the preacher, "in an exciting Hour of the Empire's history, and our minds may easily be confused by the bigness of events. Our main thought must be to carry the war to victory, but we must remember that the danger of failure lies largely in ourselves. Let us not forget the essentials in the building-up of character, in 'self-surrender and self-control. In this is the Empire's great testing time."