LATE MR BEVAN-BROWN

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18723, 21 June 1926, Page 8

LATE MR BEVAN-BROWN

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT CATHEDRAL. A memorial service to the late Mr ft E. Bevan-Brown was held in the Cathedral yesterday evening, the Eev. F. Dunnage being the preacher. Mr Dunnage took as his text, v. 7, chap. 6, of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians: "With goodwill, doing service as unto the Lord and not to men.'' It was very generally recognised, he said, that what was needed at the present time was a spirit of service. Na-, tions, groups, and individuals, were too much animated by self-interest, but not so the Christian spirit of service which laboured on for years without' seeking reward. Such service reached its greatest value when it waß not to fellowmen, but to God, and through him to His followers. Such a man was the late Mr Bevan-Brown, a man with the highest ideals of service. He regarded .his work not as a means of livelihood, but as-a vocation to which he had been called by God, and for which he was specinlly endowed. He had felt deeply and held strongly the supreme truth that mere instruction was,not education, and Hmi Mm civiiip nf knowledge was not a school's sole end and aim—That the success of n schoci was not increased merely by the length of the honours' list, but by the number of men it turned out' with high aims and ideate, who would go out into the world and work for the good of others as well as their own good. On such a foundation was the Christchurch Boys' High School conducted under Mr Bevan-Brown. He had in no way deprecated intellectual and physical ability, and had rejoiced to see his boys' success in sport or study, but his aim had always been to see that the boys should, after leaving school, use that study and athletic ability they had acquired in channels where they would help others. It was not too-much to say that he would have declared that the highest aim of education was service. It might be said of Mr Bevan-Brown as of Dr. Arnold of Rugby, a man whom he in many ways resembled, his education was not according to the popular plan, based upon religion, but his teaching was religious.