MENIAL WORK.
AM. SHOULD TAKE TURNS. BISHOP PHILOSOPHISES. "In all seriousness, I ask, why should not I and other clergymen, and men in similar positions, occasionally leave our pulpits and desks and take on turns at cleansing sewers and attending to refuse cart??' , said the Anglican Bishop of Gippsland, Dr. Cranswick, last week, when addressing a men's meeting at Ballarat. "It is scarcely fair," he continued, "that certain people should he relegated all their lives to these repellent tasks. The true sphere of Christianity must find its expression in the petty round of common life. The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker should express the spirit of Christianity in their ordinary work. Christ was a working man. Creative work is part of life itself. Work into which a man puts his best is sacred, and has God for it. God's spirit can be in carpentering and engineering just as much as in teaching and preaching."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 13
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156MENIAL WORK. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 8 September 1923, Page 13
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