{"id":3289,"date":"2016-09-22T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2016\/09\/22\/watford-peace-garden-a-living-tribute-to-those-who-stand-for-right-though-the-heavens-fall\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T09:43:43","slug":"watford-peace-garden-a-living-tribute-to-those-who-stand-for-right-though-the-heavens-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/watford-peace-garden-a-living-tribute-to-those-who-stand-for-right-though-the-heavens-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Watford Peace Garden a living tribute to those who \u2018stand for right though the heavens fall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

21 September 2016 | Watford, UK [Richard Daly\/tedNEWS]  A circular garden, lit at night, with seating in tranquil surroundings and a three tier fountain as centrepiece is now a national memorial and living tribute to all those who have stood for peace in wars past and present.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Officially opened in a moving and thought provoking ceremony on Wednesday, 21 September, the International Day of Peace, the idea for the garden arose out of a recognition that 130 Adventist men, many of them based around Stanborough Park, the Church headquarters office in Watford, went to prison and suffered severely for their non-combatant values during World War I. Even in World War II, where the government had a much better understanding of Adventist principles, Adventist men had to appear before a tribunal and were then assigned to work of \u2018national importance\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The official ceremony took place at the Stanborough Park Seventh-day Adventist Church with host minister, Pastor Jacques Venter, giving the welcome to the many who attended the service. Music in the form of the First movement from Hayden\u2019s Trumpet Concerto was provided by Matthew Payne and who later played the rather fitting hymn, O God Our Help in Ages Past as well as The Last Post \u2013 following an appropriate minute of silence.<\/p>\n