CALM CONFIDENCE.
NEED OF THE TIMES. WORK AND WAIT. “Although things look even gravel than they did a rew days ago, let us never forget that war is like a disease, and the nearer any disease approaches to a crisis the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make thenadvances together; it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead, and it will be the .courage and forbearance of the citizen nonfighting army of the Allies that will give the necessary push as the crisis arrives to our fighting forces and thus gain tlie victory,” said the Mayor (Mr A. E. Mansford) when addressing a meeting of the Manawatu Women’s Patriotic Committee yesterday. “During the American war a clergyman said to President Lincoln, ‘I hope the Lord is on our side.’ The .President replied. ‘I am not at all concerned about that, for I know the Lord is always on the side of right; but it is niv constant anxiety . and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord’s side.’ And so this should be our anxiety and prayer. We can then work and want in calm confidence for the day of victory.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 154, 30 May 1940, Page 6
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