THE JOY OF LEAENING
COMMON RELIGIOUS PURPOSE "I am aware the members of this school profess almost every form .of ecclestiastical allegiance asknowledged in this land, and'some profess none," said Canon Perciyal James, addressing pupils and ex-pupils of the" Wellington Girls' College at the special service in St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral yesterday in connection with the College Jubilee celebrations. "Nevertheless, one common religious purpose may guide this sehboly if the members are led to' 'feel after' the one God and Father of us all, 'if haply they may find Him.' He is not far from any one of us. All our .faculties, aptitudes, talents are His Gifts; for their' development and use we must give strict and solemn account to Him. "Our studies, elementary though they may be, in science, literature or art, may lead us into His Eternal Kingdom of beauty, truth and goodness, unfolding to us His mind and His purpose for thewori'd He has made arid for man made in His image.' As w© find Him we gain a keener desire for knowledge for its own sake. "We gain a joy of learning; and there; is no joy on earth like it. We go on learning all through life. . . h "In this faith work is done from the highest motives, and duty is made sacred by the thought that it is done for God. Honour and purity are reverenced as the marks of those who are 'true in the inward parts,' where no cv.« J>ut God's max enters,'.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 6
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250THE JOY OF LEAENING Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1933, Page 6
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