The AShburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1909.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7819, 11 June 1909, Page 2

Ashburton Guardian Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1909.

"The civilised world The does not advance m a Case straight line, but seems Well-Stated, to'take a sig-r.sig co\irsei like that of a drunken man," said the Rev. T .H. Sprott, preaching at St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington. Humanity, he went on to say, had oscillated between the two poles of solidarity and socialism. At the present day, there were signs of another reaction. People were beginning to see that rampant individualism was intolerable; it really meant every man for himself. and the devil take the hindmost-" This change was not as yet so apparent as regards the Church, but the Christian' ideal of mankind as one great family or brotherhood was again coming to the frouti But did not the present aspect of the civilised world as an armed camp, and the enormous expenditure by rival .nations on weapons 'of destruction, give the lie to this ideal ? He had nothing to say against arming for defence. He believed that the British race had' its special contribution to make for the general good and, therefore, a wanton attack by one nation upon another, or a war of aggression, would be an unspeakable crime and a negation of Christianity. Political science admitted the evil of the present state of international affairs, but had so far failed to find a remedy. Was it not time that the Christian people made a serious and determined effort to put an end to the possibility, of fratricidal strife, and unite the nations m one great brotherhood?

Mr Carnegie has ,■■ Mr Carnegie's now distributed over Millions. £34,000,000 m chari- ''] . . ties and m aid of education, his gifts'to libraries alone exceeding £8,000,000. To "the Scottish universities for the payment of class fees to students he gave .m 1901 £2,000,000. To Birmingham University lie gave-£50,000, and he also presented a public school and a large public park to Dunfermline, and has been a generous helper of the University of Pennsylvania, the Pittsburg Polytechnic School, and other smaller institutions. He then gave £200,000 for founding the Carnegie Institute ,at Pittsburg, and a similar sum to establish the Carnegie Institute at Washington. In 1902 he presented Mr John Morley with Lord Acton's library, 60,000 to 80,000 volumes, and Mr Morley m turn presented it to Cambridge University. In 1903 Mr Carnegie founded the Dunfermline Trust, with an annual income of £25,000, " to be used m attempts to bring into the monotonous lives of the toiling masses of Dunfermline more sweetness and light." He has arranged to build a Palace of Peace at The Hague at a cost of £300,000, and m 1905 he announced a gift of £2,000.000 for providing teachers m American universities and colleges with pensions. In 1906 to promote international peace Mr Carnegie gave £200,000, and to Princetown University he paid the cost of construction of an artificial lake 3$ miles long by 400 ft to 3000 ft wide. Next year he gave £150.000 towards the construction at Washington of a Peace Palace for America, £1.200,000 to the Carnegie Institute for the purposes of forming technical schools, and £100,000 to the King's Hospital Fund. During the present year he added £1,000,000 to the Carnegie Institute.