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THE AUSTRALIAN AT WEYMOUTH
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Fix this textNo. 7] DECEMBER 19, 1918 [ Price 3d.
Fix this textSpecial Christmas Message
Fix this textFrom FATHER BERNARD VAUGHAN.
Fix this text?Glory to God and peace to men? is the refrain of the Angelic
Fix this textChoir?s Christmas hymn. Never since the first midnight when the
Fix this textcanticles enchanted the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks on
Fix this textthe highlands about Bethlehem, has this song of praise being taken up
Fix this textwith so much real enthusiasm as it is being taken up and sung this
Fix this textChristmas of 1918. For the first time after four long years the Angelic
Fix this textSong has struck a most sympathetic note in the hearts of all the Allies.
Fix this textThis Christmas a new meaning seems to have been drawn out of the
Fix this textravishing hymn.
Fix this textIt reminds us that a world-peace has come out of victory over others ;
Fix this textand it teaches us no less that yet another peace must come from victory
Fix this textover ourselves. We have won a great victory by giving up, by taking
Fix this textup and by following. Think of what our men gave up to join the
Fix this textcolours, what they took up to conquer the foe, and what they followed
Fix this textto shout themselves hoarse with the cry of VICTORY.
Fix this textNow, if we are to have a new and happier Empire, we have to carry
Fix this textthe war from the front to a war at home. We must, if we would live
Fix this textin peace and happiness, learn to know and to fight and to conquer
Fix this textourselves. We have, all of us, something to give up, something to take
Fix this textup and something to follow up,
Fix this textAustralians are brave, fine and dashing fellows. We are all in-
Fix this texttensely proud of them. Let them be proud of themselves by self-
Fix this textknowledge, self-reverence, and self-control. Then will they live in the
Fix this textpeace past all understanding.
Fix this text?HIC LABOR, HOC OPUS EST.?
Fix this textTHE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL.
Fix this textAfter four years of bitter fighting and anguish, the day we have
Fix this textyearned for is at hand. From the victorious eleven a.m. of the
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Fix this textof peace and we will begin to talk about the glorious future.
Fix this textWhat that future will be depends not only on the State, but very
Fix this textdirectly on the work and the attitude of the individual. The State
Fix this texthas oftimes been compared to a huge ship that sails over waters calm
Fix this textand adverse with equal strength and serenity. The rivets of this great
Fix this textship are the individuals, every one of whom is a component part.
Fix this textVery soon the survivors of the men who have fought and won will
Fix this textreturn to the island set as a gem in the Southern seas. They will be
Fix this textwelcomed as the saviours of their country, and to them will be
Fix this textentrusted the custody of that freedom for which they have fought.
Fix this textAnd such is only just. You men, the pick of our manhood, know full
Fix this textwell the value of liberty. Your own sufferings and the thousand and
Fix this textone other things you have seen have taught you the value of freedom,
Fix this textfor which such a price has been paid.
Fix this textIn the field you have done your duty nobly and well; but your work
Fix this texthas only commenced. As an individual you must give to the State the
Fix this textfulness of your vast experience You have been in touch, perhaps
Fix this textfor the first time, with the great nations of the earth, with the old
Fix this textcivilisation of the East and with the new of the West.
Fix this textYou have mixed with the freedom-loving gallant French, you have
Fix this textmet the brave sons of historic Italy, and, above all, you have
Fix this textmet the homogeneous mass who go to form our great British
Fix this textEmpire and those of the English-speaking Republic of the yet
Fix this textfurther West. In fact, you have commingled with the freedom-
Fix this textloving portion of mankind, as compared with those whose boast has
Fix this textbeen of ? kultur,? and you have seen great and wonderful things
Fix this textand have learned great and wonderful lessons. You have assisted to
Fix this textlay the coping stones of a period, we hope, of true liberty and freedom.
Fix this textYOUR FUTURE WORK.
Fix this textBut your work is not yet accomplished. There is more yet to be
Fix this textdone?a great deal more?and that work will not be carried on under
Fix this textthe excitements and artificiality (if one may use the term) of war
Fix this textand its surroundings. It must and will be carried on in a more
Fix this textsober and prosaic atmosphere.
Fix this textThis work will be hard, it will be long, and may be tedious, but
Fix this textit will be accomplished. Its name is, ? The Work of Citizenship,?
Fix this textthe building up of an Empire within an Empire, an Empire founded
Fix this texton the deeds of her brave sons,'sanctified and cemented by the blood
Fix this textof the glorious dead who lie in their graves in Europe.
Fix this textEvery one of us has ? faith in Australia.? We are proud of her,
Fix this textknow her possibilities, know her faults and know her feelings, and
Fix this textit is for us to cultivate the one and endeavour to correct the other.
Fix this textDemosthenes in his speech ? De Corona,? said : ? He who may best
Fix this textgovern his country?s business is he who can manage his own.? This
Fix this textis so to-day, and it devolves on each and every one of us so to
Fix this textorder his doing that he in making a success of his private ventures,
Fix this texthe can make a success of his State?s.
Fix this textAll the great military leaders speak in eulogistic terms of the
Fix this textinitiative displayed by Australian troops, and that initiative can and
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