DANGER AHEAD

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 February 1947, Page 5

DANGER AHEAD

NEW ZEALAND TREND • “SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE ADOLESCENT” ' FORMER BISHOP’S WARNING [N’.Z.P.A. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT] (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 6. New Zealand Day was observed in London with the customary churcb service followed by the congregation being the guests of the Worshipful Company of Girdlers. At night a dinner was given-by the New Zealand Society. Some 50 New Zealanders paddled through a soupy, brown slush to Saint James Garlic Hythe, near London Bridge, and in. the ancient church, which has a gaping hole in the ceiling as one of its many blitz scars, they listened to an address by the Dean of Norwich, the Right Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland, lately Bishop of Wellington. The Dean, who took as his text, “Shall ti nation be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth at once?” urged that New Zealand should concentrate to a greater extent on the spiritual rather than the material. One of her greatest dangers at the moment, he thought, was the unconscious sei [-righteousness of the adolescent —the thought that she was already leading the world. He suggested that this attitude might be utterly disastrous because it brought the danger of living on capital and enjoying the fruits of the courage, energy, 'vision and faith of those who brought the nation so far on its way, without realising that the real goal of New Zealand’s life was iar ahead. The foremost duty was to add to the moral and spiritual capital. The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Mr W. J. Jordan, Bishop Gerard, General W. Stevens, and Mr F. S. Arthur were among those present.