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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14236, 2 March 1917, Page 6

"I recall debates m this conference on mlitary training m wliich it was evident hat not a few thought we were unfaithul to some great ideal, and pandering o jingoism m making the most elenentary preparations against attack," stated the Rev. P. W. Fairclough m an address delivered at a memorial service held m Taranaki 'Street Wesley Church, Wellington. He continued ■ "Thia tragic war has rudely shaken us out of our dreams, and awakened us to the stem and awful veracities of this universe. 'Because thou art virtuous,' says one m Shakespeare, tshall there be no more cakesi and ale?' Because you have read the Sermon on the Mount and misapplied it is there ,to be no more war ? Is the great stream of human story and tendency to reverse its flow because we wished it? You migbt as well expect lhe gum tree to cease to shod its bark, or the poplar to cast its leaves because you have 'breathed some irrelevant perfumes into tho air."