THE SPIRIT OF ARMISTICE DAY
Sir,—Reading the “Chronicle” on Friday morning and your leading article on Armistice Day. it appealed to me as a very appropriate interpretation of the spirit of that day by a humane mind. Being a returned soldier who has played his part and is carrying a reminder of it, I was not, however, so favourably impressed by the contrast afforded by those writers of letters on “Science and Religion” and “Bible in Schools,” with their rationalism and their Communistic red flag utterances, and that, more especially, on a day set aside for silence, thought and remembrance of those near and dear to us. If science, religion, and the Bibl© do not teach people to be law-abiding, I am quite sure the letters referred to will not. Such sentiments, if generally accepted, would only lead us into further troubles and more wars. I trust that some abler pen than mine will come into the firing line and take this matter up, and that such people as the writers of those letters will, in future, respect the day set apart for the fallen and for those left to mourn. ANTI-CLOVEN. Rata, November 14.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 6
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195THE SPIRIT OF ARMISTICE DAY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 6
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