BISHOP SELWYN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 178, 2 August 1881, Page 2

BISHOP SELWYN.

Bishop Sulwyn left his mark sufficiently on his age to need no college to perpetuate his memory ; but Cambridge has paid a practical testimony which silences captious criticism on his personal qualities and his beneficent work, whether that: work was among the dusky tribes of New Zealand or the grimy sons and daughters of toil m the Midlands. No one could be : long m the company of the late Bishop of Lichfield without appreciating his great powers and striking character istics. He was unselfishness itself ; and after selecting the living of a collegiate church for his son, was afterwards induced by a disinterested friend to give it to the present archdeacon of that see, then an unknown quantity m the ecclesiastical world. That son, when sent to restore to liuniiuny a parish embroiled iv Itt'icilislic ftisai'iHi'i.'M, v't.iired his birth by doing m secret siuii good deeds as the chopping up of wood for a decripit old woman, who, though aln£)st beyond the labor, retained too ihde-.-pendent a spirit to recsive parochial aid/ Bishop Selwyn was, I believe, almost, if not quite, the first prulato who, to encourage sobriety among laymen, /ab« stained, by way o' an example, from alcoholic drinks, though he enjoyed a glass of choice winy. This sacrifice to principle was at the time not fuiluwud by one of his canons, wlu, the clever s •»! uf n./listhv guished father, after unf^rcisig abatiuenca as much as possible d:irh ; Lent, if only for the purpose of nvn-o krgety exercising the viitue of charity, n «;>l lo sit down to a hot supper, from w'.ih'i the champagne was not absent. — " The Wor.'d."