THE CATHEDRAL PEOPLE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19113, 23 September 1927, Page 9

THE CATHEDRAL PEOPLE.

Mmm BY ARCHBISHOP JULIUS. "KNOW ONE ANOTHER." "The Cathedral services am beautiful and reverent; there are free place.*, and you can go where you like. You have great privileges ami no responsibilities. Into the Cathedral services we should throw ourselves. But where N our collective conscience? Wc don't seem" to go at things in :>. collective body," said Archbishop Julius, at the social ovening for the members 01" the Cathedral congregation held last even ing in Jellieoe Hall. "In order to get together wc nn;st get to know one another," snid the Archbishop. "Parishes seem to got together, but the Cathodal people do not. and the difficulty occurs in tho fact that we are English people who say: 'Wo arc pleased to meet f"How-worship-pers, as long as we do not meet them the next morning.' (Laughter.) We want an organisation in tho Cathedral where people will look at one another. When I first canio to the diocese there was a Cathedral Club, but it was not a very healthy one, as it was in debt, aiul so we shut'it up. We tried to open it, but it would not open, and wo. were not able to do quite what we wanted, Wc wanted warmth, cheeriness, aiul good followship. . . . The Cathedral congregation ghould set itself to those things which a parish would not take in itself. It is our bounden duty to fulfil such offices as deaconesses and sisters which the Cathedral should back up alwa\3. Although they do not mako much noi?;\ women do magnificent work in this diocese. . . • "The Cathedral should be tho centre of great evangelical work for young men aijd young women, and a wcicomo should be awaiting them so that tho church may not lose so many of her young people as she is doing. The Presbyterians, God bless them, are going ahead with their Bible classes, and are getting together with their young people better than we aro doing. . . • It is awful to make them Presbyterians, but it is better than nothing 1" (Laughter>) 1