The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1898). Published every evening since 1914. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927. "THEIR MEMORY SHALL NEVER FADE.”

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 23 April 1927, Page 6

The Waimate Advertiser. (Established 1898). Published every evening since 1914. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927. "THEIR MEMORY SHALL NEVER FADE.”

“Past they go with their measured tread, These are the victors, and these the dead: Ah, sink the knee and bow the head • As the hallowed host goes by.” “Their memory shall never fade.” It cannbt die, for memory is imperishable. "Naked ye came into the world and naked ye go out of it” conveys but a half truth. Memory goes out of the world with each man that dies, for memory is imperishable. We may derange the machinery of expression by some injury to the skull or brain, but let the skill of the surgeon remove the obstruction and the records of our past go gorth with undimmed freshness. We may let the'memory of an incident fade, and have no recollec-’ tion of it for many a year, but some chance touches a hidden spring and the details of that- happening stand out and declare themselves. How often the nearly drowned man tells of the flashing past his eyes of the record of his life’s happenings. The record is ! there. The record of the Anzaes is imperishably engraved upon our minds and cannot perish, but lest it become overlaid or in an measure fade we shall ever pray “Lord God of hosts Be with us yet

Lest we forget Lest we forget.” We have said and have carved in lasting stone, v letter by letter, “Their memory shall never fade,” and year by year we keep it green by the sad proud service of Anzac Day, and think again of those “ who set themselves with pride To hold the ways .... and fought and fought .... and died. They rest with Thee. But to the end of time The virtue of their valianee shall

remain To pulse a nobler life through every vein Of our humanity.”