AN ONLY SON.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13730, 19 March 1915, Page 2

AN ONLY SON.

The Bishop of London told the following story at the opening the other day of the Upper House of Convocation :—

"An old man, the father of one of the brightest boys in the London Rino Brigade, told me on Saturday that his son had just been shot. The father was only a superior joiner, but he had spent a thousand pounds, all his savings, on that boy to educate him and give him a chance, and the boy was just repaying his father financially when the war broke out. He was allowing him £50 a year, and he told his father just before the war that he would never see want.

"I am taking every care to see that that man and his wife, who have had their only son taken from thorn, shall have relief given them."