HERITAGE OF ENGLAND

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 August 1933, Page 11

HERITAGE OF ENGLAND

jpE ACHING the Shakespeare memorial isnnnon, in the Parish Church, .Strat-ford-on-Avon, on St. George’s Day, the Bishop of Norwich said: “We are rightly proud of ou;r heritage, and bound up with our tradition of order and liberty are many salient features of national! expression, three of which a.re found in our literature, our religion', pur politics in tire old 1 meaning of that deteriorating form.

“These three:, wo must, say to-day, are .represented for irs in. tire work and power of Shakespeare, in our English Bible, lying open i'n the hands of our Established Churc-lv, and in our English law ■which binds together our -expanding Empire, of which many a.re thinking when, on St. Goo-rge’is Day, they press for wise schemes of emigration.

—' V Salient Features of Expression

“Those three representative institutions do eloquently and strikingly point -to the developments of different aspects of our own national genius. But these traditions and .possessions of ours a/re not for selfish enjoyment. Our American friend's share our -Shakespeare, the whole English-speaking world our Bible, and the spirit of our law reaches far, b-eyoml the -country of its birth. Tlie night course is to build; first to build up something new and using, si) far as may be, the old maitteriai

as integral to the new. AVe still need l i the best in the old, just, as we need

j the bclst in the new. “AVe want the good wherever we i can find it. In every field ft is not t'ra--1 d'itiou tlia.t must go; ft is the worship of -tradition. Tradition, and progress are not at variance.”