Everyman’s Hut

Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 23, 4 October 1940, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

“Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain; The enemy .faints not nor faileth, And as things have been, they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars, It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e’en now the flyers, . And but for you possess the field. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back through creeks and inlets making Comes, silent flooding in, the main. And not through eastern windows only When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.” —Clough Victories are won, and great things are accomplished not by the isolated efforts of the individual, but the combined efforts of the few or many, all striving towards a common objective under a supreme command. Each has his own particular task, the accomplishing of which is marked by his own individuality and none can do the other’s work, yet for success each is dependent upon all the others. The final, result is measured, not by the success or failure l of the individual, but by the effect of the combined efforts of all. r' Team work, for that is what it really is, calls for the exercise of trust and patiencetrust in the higher command and in fellow-workers, and patience to go on, even when one’s own efforts appears to be in vain. It calls for personal sacrifice, and the setting aside of personal desires, the willingness to suit one’s own identity for the good of all, and the final success of the undertaking, but the reward is the assurance of a fight well fought, a race well run. ; May God enable us all throughout the Empire, to go on trusting Him, submitting ourselves to His correction, His guidance and instruction and testing, until we come forth as a people fitted to do His will on earth and owning His Son as our Redeemer and King. Mr. Les Taylor has now taken over the work at the Hut, and is using the quiet time to get settled down, renewing old friendships and forming new ones. May he prove a blessing to the men with whom he will come in contact. 1