TRUTH BEFORE POPULARITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9067, 12 April 1906, Page 6

TRUTH BEFORE POPULARITY.

Some time before' the Bishop of London's sermon on drunkenness at Oxford tfee undergraduates had begun a subscription of 5s a head to show their affection, for him, and he was later surprised; by the presentation of a pastoral staff, a list of fcho 'subscribers, and a cheque of the surplus money for the East London Church Fund. la thanking the deputation which made the presentation at London House, the Bishop said .Hie was not afraid to speak the tarutih to their souls ; he did not angle for popularity, but would rather risk what popularity he had than not speak the truth in love.