ARMISTICE CELEBRATIONS
(To the Editor.) v Sir, —Suggestions are aboht and plans being made for celebrations when an armistice is declared. Certain ideas have been brought to one’s notice how such celebrations should be observed. Fireworks, sports, bonfires, dances and pictures, to which I totally disagree. Ha f s the grave danger to our great Nation and ourselves been fully aporeciated here. We are a supposedly Christian am sincerity in us, whether we either show it or live it, would ii not be more fitting to accept the armistice in a spirit of humility? Should we not all meet together, parents, grown-ups. youth and children. Meet in the open bow our heads and kneel in prayer a prayer of thankfulness and contrition thanking Almighty God for giving us the strength and endurance to overcome those who, had they bee nvictorious, would have extinguished religion from our lives and made us (man, woman and child), slaves for many decades. Sufficient that as a nation we never would be one again. This way <6nly T feed is the way to celebrate Armistice Day.-—T am, etc., 19/9/44. W. Harbult. .
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Waikato Independent, Volume XLIII, Issue 4044, 22 September 1944, Page 2
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