TRIBUTE TO CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN

New Zealand Tablet, 11 February 1915, Page 13

TRIBUTE TO CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN

Rev. R. Hall, Methodist chaplain with the British Expeditionary Force in France,* states that he was allotted a tent at the base camp at Havre with Father Bradley, the Catholic chaplain, and that ‘ this was the commencement of a friendship that I am sure will be lifelong.’ ‘ I never,’ says Mr. Hall, met a more gentle and refined Christian character. His one thought was to serve others, and he cared nothing for his own discomfort as long as he was helping someone else. It was a grief to both of us when a little over a month ago I stood, in the middle of the night, at a railway station, to wish him good-bye. He was ordered to join a field ambulance in .the fighting line. His last words were: “Hall, don’t forget to pray for me; underneath and round about both of us are the Everlasting Arms.” ’