CATHEDRAL SERVICE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17756, 7 May 1923, Page 11

CATHEDRAL SERVICE.

——♦ ATTENDED BY MAYOR AND COUNCILLORS.

The morning service at the Cathedral yesterday was attended by his Worship the Mavor and -Mrs Flesher, the Town Clerk (Mr H. R. Smith), and Mrs Smith, Cr. A. W. Beaven and Mrs Beaven, Cr. J. W. Beanland and Mrs Beanland, Cr E. H. Andrews and Mrs Andrews, and Crs. Clyde Carr, 0. W. B Anderson, and A. Williams. The service was that for the King's Accession (May 6th). After the Bid ding l'rayei- the National Anthem was Sl The Very Rev. Dean Carringum preached an appropriate sonnon Ironi the text (Acts xxi„ 39): "A citizen of no ' mean city." After reiernugto St Paul's evident pride m his native city the Dean .spoke of the iSea of citizenship as it runs through the Bible Man could not bo sam to have found himself until he was a citizen The Bible story had at its outset the tradition of Babel—tho city built in self-will, which ended in anarchy. The true beginning of a city was when men ioined in mutual trust and brotherhood to heln one another. Then a new spirit "came into play. lhey. experienced the nower of co-openrtion, the iov of a common cause, the sen.se of responsibility, the necessity for justice and equity. All tie mgliest faculties oame into play in providing for one another what was beautiful, useful, and enduring. The Dean welcomed trie Mayor and Councillors, and. dwelt on the "rent future that lay before local A citv should not be too lest the nersmial element be lost; nor did we want vast aggrega.tions of oomilations such as those of the manufacturing centres of the Old World, which grew up under the bad industrial system of the last century. A citv should contain all varieties of fife and activity, and be of such size that personal knowledge and wersonal interest could be maintained. All citizens must bear thcii part—it was so easy to stand aloof and criticise. The verv best men and women must be willing to bear responsibility. Itwas worth noting that, although it had been said "God made the country and man made the town," yet _th- 'Bi'ne ended by setting before us in glowing language an ideal city as man's true home. " There, in the glorious imagery of mysticism, were sot- forth the city's character, its beauty, r.nd wealth—not stored in private hands, but in the streets and public buildings, its abundance of living water, clear as crystal: its ncrennial food supply from the tree of fife; its freedom from shirkers; its abundant light, and the absence of all that "defileth and makoth a lie." Such an ideal we might never realise, but the more we sought it the nearer we would be to its attainment. The sermon concluded with a prayer for the citv and its council. The service was TTarwod in A Fh>t, and the Tntroit- "Thou Wilt Keep Him in Perfect Peace" (Wesley).