DAY BY DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14134, 11 August 1919, Page 4

DAY BY DAY.

Presiding at the anniversary of the Army Scripture ReadA General ■ ers' Society at Caxton on Hall, London, General Religion. Sir H. S. Home K.C.8.,

K.C.M.G., said he went there because he went wherever it was obviously his duty to go. In fact, any man who had had the experiences he had had in the war, and holding the deep convictions he held, would not be fulfilling his mission if he stayed away. "In my experience of this terrible war," continued the General, "I have consolidated one and that is of the extraordinary military importance of religious sentiment among the troops. I speak as an army commander. We have got to get it recognised that this religious sentiment is part of our daily life. We must not be pessimistic, dull or depressing. We have got to teach men to live. Everyone can die; it is not everyone who can live to advantage. During the war the chapInns have found their feet; now we want the keen young men to continue the good work. Mind you the qualities that make a good soldier of Christ and a good soldier of the King and a good citizen are practically the same. The times are very critical. We cannot be content to sit still, and do nothing We must make a better England, a better Empire, a better world or this terrible war will have been in vain and our comrades will have given their lives for nothing."