“TOC H”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 7

“TOC H”

ORIGIN AND IDEALS ADDRESS TO ROTARY CLUB “Toe H” has an affinity with your club,” said the Rev. M. P. G. Leonard, in an address to the Rotary Club today. He explained how the movement had sprung from “Talbot House,” a soldiers' club, in a little town of Poperinghe in the Ypres Salient. No explanation of the growth of “Toe H” and of the affection with which it was held by the men was sufficient unless it was remembered that the house was not only a canteen and a. meeting place, but that it had a wonderful little chapel in the attic. To-day “Toe H” set out to be a living memorial to the sacrifice of the men by holding up the ideals for which they gave their lives. Service was the foundation of the brotherhood. “Religion had been a disruptive and not a, binding force; there had been bitter antagonism between the followers of Christ, who wished to worship Him in different ways. Religion had been big enough to bring men together in a brotherhood of service,” The job of “Toe H” and the Rotary Club would not be finished until the ideal of love, brotherhood and service had come into the business and social