END OF THE PACIFIC WAR.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 36, Issue 7, 1 October 1945, Page 11

END OF THE PACIFIC WAR.

This news was naturally greeted .with much rejoicing and with many a thanksgiving to God for His merciful guidance when He was not on the side of the big battalions, as the cynic says, m the dark days of Dunkirk and Singapore, and His guiding Hand was plain to all believers. In all our gratitude and joy we must remember the faithful dead. "And you our kinsfolk who for all our praying To this dear land of ours come back no more, Who lie, our country's debt of honour paying, And not m vain, upon a far-off 'shore; Till that great day when at the throne m Heaven The book is opened and the Judgment set, Your lives for honour and for freedom given, Be sure — we won't forget." The only true memorial we can erect to the heroic and gallant dead is to establish a world m which peace and brotherhood shall reign, and "where they shall not learn war any more." — J.WvB., m Church News, Tasmania.