NEW ZEALAND AND THE WAR.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 240, 18 June 1915, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND AND THE WAR.

The appearance almost daily of casualty lists in the papers has brought home very forcibly to us that our Dominion is bearing its part bravely and well in the present Kuropean struggle. We are proud of “Our Boys” at the front; proud that they are willing to give their lives for the Defence of Home and Native Land. Many of them have only just left boyhood behind them, most of them under fire for the tir>t time, and yet they bore themselves bravely as veteran troops. What an object lesson for the Germans, who have sneered at Britain’s untrain d troops and contemptible army; when Canadians in Frame prove superior to Germany’s well-drilled army, and Australians and New Zealanders landing at the Dardanelles, charge with all the el in and d ish of young soldiers, and stand with the courage and steadfastness of veterans. Nearly 2000 wounded, some, alas, fatally. When troops fight bravely under heavy fire, as the cable told us, it cannot be done withcut the price being paid.

Our parsonages and White Ribbon homes have suffered heavily. To mothers and sisters of our wounded boys we tender our sinccrest sympathy, and pray that their loved ones may be restored again. For those whose loved ones have passed “within the veil” we pray that the God of all comfort may be with them, and that amid all the sadness of farewell they may feel that “Duke et decorum est pro patria mori,” and may realise that their dear ones are “not lost, but gone before.” To the many who are anxiously scanning the daily list of wounded, dreading to se • a familiar name, may God give “peace, perfect peace,” even “with loved ones far away,” knowing that in Jesus' keeping they are safe.