'No.
3
MONDAY, AUGUST Brd,
PRICE 2d.
1953.
SUN SHIT{ES FOR UN'TED SERWEE natural beauty of th€ Coronation Camp settrng at Stubbers was seen in its furll splendour y€stsrday, when most of the cadets and their omcens pa,raded iD brilliant sunshine for an inter-
THE
demorninntional servioe. Ihis wns takem by ths Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of lVillesdon, who was assi,qted by the Rev. C. W. T. Searle-Barnes and the Rev. G. M. Lister, both Chu,rch of England clergymen, and by the Rw. K. Soleby, o[ the Frce Clunch.
1953-the ideal of chivalry still
stands."
He went on to say he believed that the particular problem we faced in the 20th Century was materialism.
People seemed to think more of material things, such as what they
saw. and they forgot about
spiritual values. "Thus," said the Bishop,
the
"in our day again, men plan their lives without realising the Will of God.
They forget about Him, and never take Him into theii"lives. They think th.e important things
things-success.
are the material amassing of
the
Music for the service was provided time when the ideals of the Order fortunes, and so on-and they forget by the Regent Hall Young People's of St. John were forgotten. But even to help the people in need of help. Band of the Salvation Armv. It was when men failed, thele ideals still "Another danger which their first experience of such an remained. They still sweetened life, from materialism is thatcomes mon occasronmade it bearable for those who were believe things are more important In his address the Bishop of in need of help. than the people they know." "And these ideals still continue. "So Willesden said: it seems that this ideal of "In those far-off davs some 700 or held they have up before chivalry, in which we have been ,our eves the standards which should brought up, can be applied to the 800 vears ago, which we call the Middle Ages, life was very hard and bg practised by Christian men and dangers which face us in our own cruel: manners were crude; life was women," day. The call for chivalry is just as difficult for everybody. The Bishop then said to the Cadets: clear now as it was a thousand years "It was within this sort of life that "You may sav this is all very inter- ago." there grew up a spirit of chivalry; esting. but what has it to do with In closing, the Bishop of Willesden that is to say. certain people banded me? The first answer, of course. is themselves together in their Christian that your Cadet movement springs told his -voung listeners: "You are faith. in orrder to prevent further almost directly from the Hospitallers prepared for the love of God in difficulties in life; rin order to help of Jerusalem. Your roots go right Christ, because, in the St. John those who were weak; rin ordei' to back in history to those men who Ambulance Cadets, you go out to seek to help those who are in need. bring some humanity into warfare; were inspired by chivalry. in order to respect womanhood. "You may',think there is a differ- with courtesy. and without thought
in those far-off days. there ence between ths present and those for yourselves. "And in so doing, you are helping the Orders of Chivalry. to hard and cruel years. But it makes bring service to others. And among no difference whether it is 1066 or to carry on a great tradition." "Thus,
grew up
such Orders were the Hospitallers of Jerusalem.
-Our first visitors enjoy sunshine too
"The beginning of the Hospitallers is lost in the mists of time. but we know that thev set themselves the ITHE Camp's first Open Day task of helping others by kindness r brought between four and five and by generous acts. From Jeru- hundred visitors to Stubbers, most of salem their work spread to the them parents and friends of the Island of Rhodes, and to Malta, and cadets. They found the place lookto our own land-a Christian work ing much more inviting than it ap-
they saw pleasant sunlit
meadows.
enlivened by glittering uniforms and
an orderly array of
tents.
There was an air of bustle about the place and the loudspeakers constantly told of something going on.
of mercy, in days when men showed peared to those of us who arrived Indeed, it may be doubted if each other. in Friday's squalls. "Of course, as with all things in Instead of wet fields and woe- Stubbers has ever before worn such which men take part, .there came a begone trees under a lowering sk1', a festive air. little kindness or mercy to