SERVICE AT CATHEDRAL

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20257, 8 June 1931, Page 13

SERVICE AT CATHEDRAL

ARCHBISHOP'S SERMON. " .. -i—' 7 , <jrhe Cathedral Grammar School Jubl--lee' wtir farther celebrated. "yesterday i when a service was Jiold at the festhedral. where r Archbishop" , Julias p'rea<?h«d. .The 1 ■ '.present' pupils' of the B«sh<jol, togfltiKtf t wti some seventy old bayi, representing all periods- of the &hpoV».tiietaftrattended- 'Tbe' lesßons were lewLfcyVty* the, of rthe; pcUty »» d •!?* ! f, M f F t' *i/V> ' '

.the present headmaster, the Eev. Stephen Parr: ' It was "always necessary to provide sDecially for " the training and general 'education of tho members, of -a large boys' Choir,' as the nature of .their duties Presented difficulties,..the .Archbishop, said So "in England almost every cathedra/ 4nil imany large churches had their speejal <jhoiT schooja. A-simi-lar .'-had "been followed -in Christ^ chureh. , ' Under its first headmaster the school had prospered exceedingly, Tint "a time I of financial • difficulty had followed,, affecting the Cathedral,^rofrr;which the sfcbool derived .part of>its fund?. It hail been clasfcd dfltftf-andchad.-tfet re-opened until- teif years had" passed. Jit; had' be-

1 gun ag£(in under, the second headmaster, j and had gone on and prospered right up j to the present ,day. . Work of Choir Schools. There were certain, principles upon which such a school should be built. He had taken as his text Matthew xiii., 33, where the Kingdom ,of heaven was likened to'leaven, which was used as a symbol of good influence. If evil was, a pervasive influence, no less, but- ingreater was goodness pervasive in .its. influence, bringing • in light and health. ■ , • "Sometimes parents are afraid of the possibly" effocts oh their boys of tho things they will eome in contact with .in any, community of schoolboys. .They

are bound to mept - those, things sooner or later: you may warn and denounce, but what is the good, unless thoy are immune thjrougb the ".active Working in them 9f the principle for good," he went ,on. "The work of a school then is not so .much to teach,' as to reeogoise that in each boy ■there are active principles of good,- and to give thesfe all the-support they roquiro. The school that-cares for' the physical Bide and also is looking after , the . inner, life of -the boys is doing just what they need." *He >was reminded of the saying of. Dean > luge that ".Religion is . not" taught—it is. caught." rsQtbing made, him,more thankful, he said; iis.:cQaelusion, than-to '.know that

those.who had. been.as'.boys in the first choir'of the Cathedral were still' there,, and had not ' been , deterred, by any .monotony in' the regular", demands on, them for tho services.-"Gpd gr&nt that the boys who.have lived here,- sung here, worshipped here, may be a centre of that gracious influence which may - bring multitudes of others to tlie faith." . » Before the service a group photograph of past.a'ndpresont'pupils.was taken at the school.