Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 119, 24 April 1942, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

There are lonely hearts to cherish, While the days are going by; There are weary souls that perish, While the ays are going by; If a smile we can renew, While our journey we pursue, Oh, the good we all may do, While the days are going by! There’s no time for idle scorning, While the days are going by; Let your face be like the morning, While the days are going by; Oh, the world is full of sighs, Full of sad and weeping eyes; Help your fallen brother rise, While the days are going by! “Be ye not weary in well-doing,” wrote the great Apostle Paul, and in the present days there is j no service—-munition-making and war work of all kind not exceptedwhich gives such opportunities for long hours and rich rewards than “well doing,” the rewards may not be measured in terms of money or this world’s goods—at the best are perishable commodities, but in that inner pleasure and contentment that comes from helping those in less fortunate circumstances than ourselves. “In due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not,” is the inducement held out for “well-doing,” and that which is done out of love to Christ brings rewards not in this life only, for in heavent there are laid up

treasures for eternity. To carry on this service of “welldoing” towards the members of the Forces is the object of operating the Everyman’s Hut in various camps in New Zealand. Without any assistance from the National Patriotic Fund Board, though with their whole-heart-ed consent, and with the friendly cooperation of the military authorities, the Huts give a service which, by the very nature of the work required of them, other Institutes cannot give. The latter have most important services to perform in making the soldier’s time in the orces as happy and comfortable as possible, but in the faithful fulfilment of these objects they of necessity cannot give very much time to the spiritual help of the men. That ,is the primary work of the Everyman’s Huts. Started by ren” and carried on by the active coChristians usually known as “Brethoperation of Christians throughout New Zealand, the Huts have proved conclusively over and over again that there is a place for this work alongside that for the practical welfare of the men, and many hundreds of the latter have been helped and blessed beyond telling, by the Christian fellowship and spiritual help found in the Huts. The Huts are entirely undenominational and members of any church or religious body, or those who belong to none of them are warmly welcomed to make use of the Huts in their leisure hours, and of the various utility services available to them.