The Australian at Weymouth

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mc N 1475 item no. 5777
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Weymouth, [England] : A.I.F., 1918-1919
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Issue No. 7 (December 19, 1918)
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THE AUSTRALIAN AT WEYMOUTH  

Circulating in the Verne, Westham, Littlemoor, and Monte Video Camps of the A. F.  

No. 7] DECEMBER 19, 1918 Price 3d.  

Special Christmas Message  

From FATHER BERNARD VAUGHAN.  

?Glory to God and peace to men? is the refrain of the Angelic  

Choir?s Christmas hymn. Never since the first midnight when the  

canticles enchanted the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks on  

the highlands about Bethlehem, has this song of praise being taken up  

with so much real enthusiasm as it is being taken up and sung this  

Christmas of 1918. For the first time after four long years the Angelic  

Song has struck most sympathetic note in the hearts of all the Allies.  

This Christmas new meaning seems to have been drawn out of the  

ravishing hymn.  

It reminds us that world-peace has come out of victory over others  

and it teaches us no less that yet another peace must come from victory  

over ourselves. We have won great victory by giving up, by taking  

up and by following. Think of what our men gave up to join the  

colours, what they took up to conquer the foe, and what they followed  

to shout themselves hoarse with the cry of VICTORY.  

Now, if we are to have new and happier Empire, we have to carry  

the war from the front to war at home. We must, if we would live  

in peace and happiness, learn to know and to fight and to conquer  

ourselves. We have, all of us, something to give up, something to take  

up and something to follow up,  

Australians are brave, fine and dashing fellows. We are all in-  

tensely proud of them. Let them be proud of themselves by self-  

knowledge, self-reverence, and self-control. Then will they live in the  

peace past all understanding.  

?HIC LABOR, HOC OPUS EST.?  

THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL.  

After four years of bitter fighting and anguish, the day we have  

yearned for is at hand. From the victorious eleven a.m. of the  

eleventh day of the eleventh month we will soon pass on to the day  

of peace and we will begin to talk about the glorious future.  

What that future will be depends not only on the State, but very  

directly on the work and the attitude of the individual. The State  

has oftimes been compared to huge ship that sails over waters calm  

and adverse with equal strength and serenity. The rivets of this great  

ship are the individuals, every one of whom is component part.  

Very soon the survivors of the men who have fought and won will  

return to the island set as gem in the Southern seas. They will be  

welcomed as the saviours of their country, and to them will be  

entrusted the custody of that freedom for which they have fought.  

And such is only just. You men, the pick of our manhood, know full  

well the value of liberty. Your own sufferings and the thousand and  

one other things you have seen have taught you the value of freedom,  

for which such price has been paid.  

In the field you have done your duty nobly and well; but your work  

has only commenced. As an individual you must give to the State the  

fulness of your vast experience You have been in touch, perhaps  

for the first time, with the great nations of the earth, with the old  

civilisation of the East and with the new of the West.  

You have mixed with the freedom-loving gallant French, you have  

met the brave sons of historic Italy, and, above all, you have  

met the homogeneous mass who go to form our great British  

Empire and those of the English-speaking Republic of the yet  

further West. In fact, you have commingled with the freedom-  

loving portion of mankind, as compared with those whose boast has  

been of kultur,? and you have seen great and wonderful things  

and have learned great and wonderful lessons. You have assisted to  

lay the coping stones of period, we hope, of true liberty and freedom.  

YOUR FUTURE WORK.  

But your work is not yet accomplished. There is more yet to be  

done?a great deal more?and that work will not be carried on under  

the excitements and artificiality (if one may use the term) of war  

and its surroundings. It must and will be carried on in more  

sober and prosaic atmosphere.  

This work will be hard, it will be long, and may be tedious, but  

it will be accomplished. Its name is, The Work of Citizenship,?  

the building up of an Empire within an Empire, an Empire founded  

on the deeds of her brave sons,'sanctified and cemented by the blood  

of the glorious dead who lie in their graves in Europe.  

Every one of us has faith in Australia.? We are proud of her,  

know her possibilities, know her faults and know her feelings, and  

it is for us to cultivate the one and endeavour to correct the other.  

Demosthenes in his speech De Corona,? said He who may best  

govern his country?s business is he who can manage his own.? This  

is so to-day, and it devolves on each and every one of us so to  

order his doing that he in making success of his private ventures,  

he can make success of his State?s.  

All the great military leaders speak in eulogistic terms of the  

initiative displayed by Australian troops, and that initiative can and  

Continued on page 3.  

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