CATHEDRAL BELLS.

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 155, 28 December 1918, Page 11

CATHEDRAL BELLS.

TO RING IN WELLINGTON.

Anlong'the'charms of many of the cities and towns of Belgium and 'Norths em France wliich attracted visitors in thexlays before the war were the beautiful peals of bells Which rang out from their cathedral belfrieß. There neve? Were such bell* as those of Malines, for example; and their destruction deeply stil-red all those people who had eVei 1 listened to their musical responses to the master hands that rang them. Wondertul and solemn and sweet are the tones of true cathedral bells! Yet the people of Wellington have never heard them in their own .city, never heard their own cathedral beJls chiming with a cheery, uplifting clamour or swinging steadily to send their deep notes quiver^ iv"- across the waters and out,, over the hifls. Som6~day they will, though, arid whether it be soon or late, will depend upon the" support given to the scheme, which is now Well under Wajf, to build an Anglican Cathedral in Wellington. Throughout, those wrecked areas of France and Flanders, men Will be busy building and rebuilding their houses of .God which the Htiiis have shattered. To the people of those lands, the idea of living without their beautiful buildings,' and their Wonderful bells, would be unthinkable. Individually these people are poorer than New. Ze'alanders, . yet they will rebuild their cathedrals as thankofferings for peace. So that the reasons why we in New Zealand should build a great cathedral in our capital city, as a thank offering too, are much more urgent and real. They know, those wise, folk who have suffered untold torments during tile past four' years, tliey know that life without things, and thoughts that are- beautiful, is a cntde and liiisatisfy-. ing existence. We in Wellington do not realise this because vpe have nevor heard our city's cathedral bells ringing overhead, or possessed a cathedral of the kind that such bells Would belong to. But the time is-coming when we shall, dnd you can hasten it by subscribing to the cathedral building fund.. Donations or promises (which May be Spread over live years) Will be Welcomed, ahd should be sent to the hon. organising secretary, R«v. C. .F. Askew, St. Mark's Vicarage, Wellington.—Advti :