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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20511, 1 September 1936, Page 2

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National music and national songs have often made deep impressions on those who are sick. This was proved over and over again during the Great War amongst the wounded soldiers. A well-known padre, who is now dead, used to tell moving stories of how the wound-1 Highland men at the front loved to hear the songs of their native glens, and how many of them when they were dying asked that their faces might be turned towards Scotland. Recently at the Auckland Hospital a concert party came Into one of the wards, and (says the Auckland “Star”) a very sick and lonely patient felt that he was too weary to pay much attention to what was going on till he heard the strains of his favourite Scottish song, "My Ain Folk.” The effect was magical, and according to what his attendants told him it was the one thing that turned the whole course of his Illness and made him take a turn for the better which no setback could check. An elderly man who was a patient of the hospital over 10 years ago narrates how the doctors told him his life was saved in a similar way. It was Christmas morning, and after a severe operation it was thought he would not last throughout the night because of serious internal bleeding. Archbishop Averill, as is his custom conducted a Christmas service in that ward in the morning, and gave out the patient's favourite hvmn. As a result of the Ringing the patient was so uplifted that a change for the better toe’: place almost at once, and he attributes his recovery to the effect the hymn hi d on his mind.