A STRIKING CONTRAST.
To tl.e Editor. S'r.—The accounts of the Serbian women lying down to die on the roadside that their soldiers might liave bread shows up our poor, comfort-loving torn* munity iu rather a pitiful light, and makes one wonder whether the fighting ! spirit, with all its drawbacks, is not a far finer and more wholesome one than the trading, money-making spirit. Onr 1 men, trained and disciplined, have shown themselves second to none in the world, but what about the community that • sends tbem forth, and in the middle of its own ease and abundant prosperity' not only waits to lie asked to give for tnem. but either haggle* and bargains for the smallest possible sum, or else insist* on a "quid pro quo" in the shape of excitement, pleasure, or possible gain? Fortitude, self-denial nnd endurance are ' not Christianity, but assuredly there is .* no Christianity worth the name without them.—l am, etc.. VOX. Xc.'W Plymouth, Dec. 17.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1915, Page 5
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