THE CHURCH ARMY'S WORK.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14861, 7 September 1918, Page 7

THE CHURCH ARMY'S WORK.

During the nine months to the end of Mprch the exneffditure".of- the . Church Arniv had amounted to £873,318, and j the receipts to £834,280. The-activities! of this splendid '.organisation -includedj kitchen cni*s- on the West i'ront, hostels j fo3- men on leave in London, training iov j discharged men,, parcels for prisoners of war,'besides work i'ei-e iv New Zealand,! and the 'joml'ort of fclie men on trans-1 ports. General frr Yv'-'lir.m Kobertsor. ■ recently paid a reiaurkable tribute to the'work of the C'hurc-h Array. At the annual mGvthiy; in London he stated that the death-dealing efi'eco of modern armaments was so great, the strain on the powers of human endurance was; v,6. prolonged .and intense, and the numbersengaged are so colossal, ■ that- nothiag less than the highest .stauuard of moral and physic-ill powers,would, suffice to ensure victory. Every endeavour shouldtiiei'cfovt; be made to pj-ovkle facilities for our troops to i-ecover and retain those jxnve;."?... 'The work uf the Church .•Army was :;o' designed -as" to conduce oiFeetivelv to that end; urid "tJe comrnend-t-;d the otvoi'ta- of tho urbanisation to his

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