The Blood Of Heroes.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 71, 26 April 1929, Page 8

The Blood Of Heroes.

A Stirring Anzac Message. "Anzac Day summons us, both young and old, to build in our hearts a bridge of solemn remembrance. ]t is a day pregnant with spiritual possibilities and of great Tiioral hencfit to us all. As avo tliing of tlio.so wlio laid down their lives at Gallipoli and elsewhero in tho Great War, we sliould be animated not so much by pain as by a sense of national, imperial and world-wide pride, rejoioing that our men were ahle to break the line that menaced the whole world and open the way to libertv. Jt has heen said that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Cliurch and T say that the blood of thcse j heroes is the seed of a greater and i mightier nation, and that the world is a better and a richer world through the sacrifiee of Gallipoli." This was the stirring Anzac Day j message imparted to his liearers by the i Rev. H. B. Hughes during the course of tlie Anzae Dav service in the Xapier J Municipal Theatre yesterday after- i noon. Tlie speaker pointed out that Anzac Day called upon us to placo a loyal wreath of remembrance on the shrine of our hearts in memory of the brave deeds of Anzac. He cjuoted a message from the late Field Marshal Foch, in which that greatest of all inodern soldiers stated that it was onlv out of sorrow and sacrifiee that the great things of life grew. The speaker considered that on Anzac Day we should very properly try to hegin to put the sadness of it^ all out of our minds and appreciate its glory. A note more cheerful than mournful should be struck. Only this week all hearts were moved hy sadness _ on hearing of two splendid young lives laid down in the loneliness nnd desolation of the Austrnlinn desert. Tliese men. as individnals, made the supreme sacrifiee, hut there were times wlien not only individnals, hut nations were called upon to make great sacrifices. Anzac Day made it possible to em-

hark upon a new scale of values and a new spirit of liuinan hrotherliood and goodwill. On Anzac Day we not only perpetuntcd in our hearts tlie memorv of tho men who gave their lives, hut consecrated ourselvos for tho day to he. How better could tliis be done than hy transmitting untarnished to the roming generations our national lieritage?