WAR AND AFTER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 2

WAR AND AFTER.

SERMON BY BISHOP JULIUS. 'l'll I I.l>>U t\ ()!'' S\< KI KICK. I I •• sh ;l lt »» ,•.» l'nc-Iv to parly Govern--1 in, in. i|inM it'll Hi .Imp -iultu'i in his -.11! tlliHl :I ( ill!' < '.I I III! h'.'l I l.'lM. I'li'lli. !I) illr.iMi-.MMt'. I lII* »•'>!' iUt'l what udll I.in »l "Wo may j.'.o bnci; to it. h»i Hililod, " iitil. uo will never cn.jo.v it \w> Um'.l (O dt>. Wtf! <;'!)• soi-ia! |||\. li;h'i\ 1(1 lis old Vliy:s: J Will the IlU'lt \\ !11 > IlilVO toget Ill>' ' I"' tivitrlu'M L'O hnek to bo Will llu* <>M class dist iiH (ions survive in tho ()!i| Country? I do not believe it. '!' l * w hole iritol'leetual, moral aii.l religion* outiook "ill be eb.'U];:,ed . Jdo no!, doubt it.. Even no v.- it_is changes. Take one instance out' estimate o! Human lift 1 . To-day wo _ have to jygard tho loss of human JiJ'o oolleetivelv ; ivn cannot regard it individually. have never known such losses, ana those losses are going on. "We have. sc.n?. our best to tho front, imd our be.si., by the grace of God, liavo done nobly. And Ave will send more, and othek of our best will go--men tied ut present, who will P'lfc country tirst nnd go. And others will go. I.apparels and shirkers who have not round their manhood yet, but who will find it and will go in then- turn, nud it may bo that going they will ho as 0;,, ml as the best; for thero were item v, ho wont at the eleventh hour and did good work as well as those who went in tho early morning. And ,so wo are. sending thorn —nor, from New Zealand alone—out to that ghastly front, and the loss .is a com ufcm loss and the sorrow is a common sorrow. .And up rises the old oroblem, what is man? Does' God tliink of him? Wo cannot think about men individually to-day, but God can and God does think of them. That limitation of ours does not belong to Him." " It is a very dangerous thing for any of na," tlio preacher continued, " to allow the thought of the individual to die out of our minds, lt\st wo should eomo to think that their lives arc ended. and tho whole master ended. Wo havo given our youth, in tho prime of manhood, ami they hare given up their careers and ail hope of the future. Bub life must be measured by voltage as well a* amperage. Sumo lives flow on in a good steady stream from seventeen io seventy, and another man's lil'o i;> .summed up in one flash of lightning", and lie is gone, hut he lias done the work. And I think that, these heroic fellows havo lived in that moment, and their Jives are not lost, but in death they have found true life. Christianity is tho only religion in tho world that speaks a living hope at such jh timo as this. Christ wrought in His death more than Ho wrought in His life, and through the ages Tie lives and works and moves and triumphs. And these men who went to the front., some of them very ignorant, and some of them of tlio best intellect, they did get their .souls together and go out when the call earao. I do not think their life is eride-1 and the thing done with. Tho sacrifice is not lost, and it is not forgotten. I know thero is a voice that speaks to them, ' Son of man, stand upon thy foot, and I will speak unto t-heo.' "