RELIGION AND THE EMPIRE
* REV. H. K. ARCHDALL’S VIEWS ‘VBOIi OtTlt OWH COBMBPOKDSNT.) LONDON. December 29. The view that the right of entry for clergy in New South Wales schools was better than the Nelson system of Bible reading in New Zealand was expressed by the Rev. H. K. Archdall, former headmaster of King’s College. Auckland, in an address on “Religion and the Empire,” at Winchester Cathedral recently. Mr Archdall referred to the steadily falling birth-rate in Australia and New Zealand. The toxic principle was spiritual and moral. The position grew more serious every year. Without sufficient spiritual basis, the Empire could never be held together by economic and political links. The British Empire was a cultural problem, he said, in deploring the weakness of the grasp of large principles in the Homeland, just when Australia and New Zealand were developed. This led to the easy growth of secularism, materialism, and utilitarianism beyond the seas. The cultural recovery, based on religion, must arise first in the Homeland.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22305, 20 January 1938, Page 9
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