'FOR THE CHEAT AND NOBLE SPIRIT OF THOSE MEN.”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12465, 5 June 1926, Page 11

'FOR THE CHEAT AND NOBLE SPIRIT OF THOSE MEN.”

V\'hen the appeal was made in iqiS for the South African War Memorial Carillon Miss Dorothea Fairbridge helped well with this soul-moving message:— “Let us take our thoughts forward to the centuries to come, through which the bells of Capetown will keep alive and proclaim to all corners the deep and humble oratitude of her women in this year of 1918 towards those Knights of God whc laid down their lives in this greatest of all the crusades. Our sick and wounded soldiers, the lonely and the desolate have been cared for, and will be a holy charge for years to come. But when they and we have passed away, the bells will still remain to cry aloud to all the world our thankfulness, to ring out the Mother City’s gratitude for the great and noble spirit of those men who died that others might be free. Is there one who, when he hears those bells on memorial days, can forget? One of the bravest and rarest

souls, where all were brave, left behind him the memory of his thoughts when sailing in the stillness, high above the din of the battlefields. ‘You could almost hear the harps,’ he said. Dare we hope that the music of the Capetown bells will rise to high heaven and carry with it our love and reverence* and gratefulness to those in whose dear memory we raise them in this city?”