THE "TOO H" MOVEMENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19028, 27 May 1925, Page 12

THE "TOO H" MOVEMENT.

ITS AIMS AND IDEALS. THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE. Ail explanation of the aims and ideals of the "Toe H" movement was given by the Revs. P. T. B. Clayton and M. P. G. Leonard in St. Sepulchre's Hall last evening. Archbishop Averill presided over a fair attendance. In introducing the speakers, Archbishop Averill said that during the war prayers had been offered up for a new spirit in the Empire, and he felt, that the "Toe H" movement was an answer to those prayers. Mr. Clayton, who was the founder of the movement, was not at all well, but he had insisted 011 coining to the meeting. Mr. Clayton described the birth of the idea from which the movement sprang, and said it was just that there should bo in each unit of the Empire some living thing which would 1m constituted into a memorial to teach the rising generations the principles of endurance and sacrifice. He appealed to the audience to pledge themselves to a groat, clean Christian tradition.

Mr, Leonard, with the aid of a large number of lantern slides, gavo an account of the origin and history of the movement and briefly described the work done by it. Public opinion throughout the world was being moulded by the secondrate. The natural leaders of the world had been killed in the war. The "Toe H" movement was attempting to make good that desperate shortage. It was essentially a youth movement to keep alive the spirit of comradeship in servico which was manifested during the war. The work of tho movement included the assistance of slum children, the provision of scoutmasters and leaders of boys' clubs, and similar kinds of service. The meeting closed with three cheers for the speakers, and the singing of "For They Arc Jolly Good Fellows."