24 SHORT HISTORY OF ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
quently been commented upon by those who knew the Club,
say, twenty years ago and who have returned to it in recent
times. Our Club has become in very deed a Club and not merely
a Society—the "club spirit" is fostered and the effect is seen
in the willing aid given to help on its interests.
It only remains for me to urge our members, and particularly
our younger members, to come forward and take up the burden
of work so zealously and well performed by their predecessors
in advancing the useful work of the Club.