SIR JOHN KIRK

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1310, 13 December 1911, Page 5

SIR JOHN KIRK

ENTERTAINED AT LUN'CHEON. _ Sir John Kirk, the leader of the Ragged Schools movement in London, gave an address at a New Zealand Club luncheon yesterday. Tho Hon. C. M. Luke, M.L.C., presided, and was supported by Mr. J. G. W. Aitken. The guest's address consisted largely of reminiscences of tho late Lord Shaftesbury in connection with ragged schools and other philanthropic works. It had been said that the men who move the world are those whom the world cannot move. Lord Shaftesbury was one of those, and this was plainly shown by his readiness to shock the susceptibilities of his own class, bv doing such, things as preaching at street corners. He was tender-hearted as weil as strong, and when he was growing old and feeble, he said: "I can't bear to leave the world with so much misery in it. He was truo to his family motto. Love Serve." What Carlyle said of John Knox was true of him-'The letter of a man's life may die. The spirit never. '

\ Ai & Altken . "i p oposing a vote of thanks, said that Sir John Kirk was too modest to tell them (hat he had been associated with the late lord Shaftesbury in all the work which he initiated ami had helped him to carry it out. Si" John Kirk had borno a great t* T t cf the Britain could appeal in vain for the sympathies ot Sir John Kirk. I'be vote of.thanks to the g.iest for his address was carried with enthusiasm