ST. PAUL'S, LONDON

Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 10

ST. PAUL'S, LONDON

EMPIRE PARISH CHURCH

"I-like to feel that St. Paul's is the parish church of the Empire," said the Vcn. EvN. Sharpe, Archdeacon of London and Canon of St. Paul's, when speaking to members of the Wellington Rotary Club today. He met people there from all parts .'of the Empire,, he continued, and there was. a definite link between St. Paul's and New Zealand,. Sir George Grey, that great man who had given thirty-five years of his life to New Zealand, was buried there, and Lord' Jellicoe, who had been Gov-ernor-General of the Dominion, was laid to rest in the crypt of the Cathedral ■ last November.

The Archdeacon said that his duty in London was to look after 217 parishes, containing a greater population, than New Zealand. Greater London was divided into three parts, and the problem in his section during the last- twelve years had been to make provision for the enormous .influx : of population, on the outskirts of Middlesex. So many houses had been built there that 45 new;churches had to be provided. .

In conclusion, the Archdeacon apappealed to Rotarians to do their best to make the links* of Empire a living force. The whole world was looking to the British Empire for guidance, and the nations of that Empire should hold together and work for the good of the world.