A VICTORY FOR LIBERTY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Northern Advocate, 19 July 1919, Page 3

A VICTORY FOR LIBERTY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Mr D. W. Jack, M.8.E., declared that they had listened to the pro- ; clamation of His Gracious Majesty the King—their King—with the most profound feelings they were capable of. Five years ago their feelings were very different. The people had then no thought that they would be plunged into an awful war. Bri- j tons had looked upon the military nations and felt glad that they were ; ruled by civilians. Then the time came when the greatest of all military nations, Germany, felt the op- , portunity had come to meet the nations of the world. A start was made with Belgium, but the real object was to dominate the civilised nations of the world. Britain realised this when on August 4 she declared war and that was an occasion which would never be blotted from the memories of the generations of today or from the generations to come. Britain was not a military nation and had no large standing army, but when the news was flashed across the Empire the flower of their manhood sprang into the breach to protect the flag which has stood for liberty, freedom, and righteousness. Referring to the

sacrifices which their men had made,

he pointed <*ut that it lay not with those alone who had made the supreme sacrifice, because each made that when he left his- native land to face the enemy. He thanked God

for those who had been so wiling to give their lives in the cause of liberty and righteousness. He hoped the time would com c when the surviving men who had J? one away would be again absorbed into peaceful occupations and go on towards greater victories. Touching upon the future, he declared that an endeavour would have to be made to secur c the masses of the people a higher standard of living and a greater share of the wealth they helped to produce. The spirit of the future must not b e selfishness, but service-giving, and in this they should emulate the example of th e "boys."