COLONIAL SECULARISM

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 130, 29 November 1926, Page 10

COLONIAL SECULARISM

A LUGUBRIOUS BISHOP,

(Received 29th November, 2.45 p.m.)

LONDON, 28th November.

If avid, arrogant-secularism is too often tho temper of colonial society; if the passion for money-making and the appetite for frivolous self-indulgence is even more blatant in tho new English communities than in the old, could the English dioceses which arc shaping the immigrants disown a measure of responsibility for that, melancholy and portentous fact? asked the Bishop of Durham when preaching at Durham Cathedral. He added that the coal stoppage doubtless would necessitate an organised effort overseas for the migration of multitudes of people who were permanently unemployed. It would be a grave reflection if the crude, naked rcgularisation, to which clergymen ,aro accustomed as being deplorable aud unavoidable in their own parishes, should bo tho foundation of popular life in the Dominions.-Migrants might be mentally and physically excellent, but their moral nad spiritual equipment must oc- | casion profound anxiety.