Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 56, 17 January 1941, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

In a military camp, housing some thousands of men, there is “a variegated company,” like the clientele of Jimmy Ah Foo’s cookshop, frequented by Ginger Mick, where “some are tuppenny coloured, and some are penny plain, From a lawyer to a common lumper man.”

before an unexpected attack. And so when a man puts on the King’s uniform, he just has to obey orders and attend to his own particular bit of duty and he will find that when every man does similarly their actions dovetail so that the complete movement is executed according to plan. The man higher up does the planning and the ordering for the men of his command.

Men from all walks of life rub shoulders, in the King’s uniform and it takes some time for a new draft to get shaken down into* the camp routine. Some men are amenable to discipline and find things very easy. Others, to whom the restrictions of camp life are irksome, make heavy going until they become accustomed to the new life. But all are in camp on a serious business and every detail of their life is planned by men of experience with the one object of turning them out efficient soldiers who can bring victory to their country. There is much in routine and instruction, that to the recruit seems superfluous, much repetition that seemingly could well be done away with, but up to the present it has all been found needful in the turning out of men who will be able to stand firm in the face of any emergency and not to break

And so our lives are ordered in a similar way. Many things which seem irksome and hard to understand at the moment, appear in their true light later on when their purpose has been accomplished, and we see them as guide posts directing us along a certain way. “There’s a divinity that shapes our . ends Rough hew them how we will.” There have been busy times at the Hut during the last week. On Wednesday night a party from Wellington came out and gave very acceptable items. On Sunday evening Mr. Les. Taylor spoke to a full Hut and was listened to with keen attention as he explained the meaning of the words of our Lord, “Ye must be born again.” Already a good number of Christian boys from the Fifths are attending the prayer meeting and we are looking for the numbers to grow.