BISHOP’S ADVICE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 15, 15 December 1937, Page 12

BISHOP’S ADVICE

SCHOOL AND AFTER-LIFE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 14. Advice to those who are soon to leave school was given by the Bishop of Wellington (lit. Rev. H. St. Barhe Holland) at a special service last night at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral at which clergymen of other denominations were present. Representatives from 11 Wellington colleges attended. The lesson was taken from Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, XII, 1-17, 23, and was read by a prefect of Wellington College.

“As I look at you this evening, I feel you are all standing on a bridge, bridging the gulf between two worlds,” said Bishop Holland. “One is the world of school where you have spent many years and the other side of the gulf is that other world with all its freedom and all its possibilities of adventure, a world in which the discipline of school has got to be succeeded by selfdiscipline. “We may never be able to say what school has done for us, yet beneath the surface there is always something in life that wo would never have had but for the years in the community of school. That ‘something’ is, to me, the sense it has brought us that life is not a game of smash and grab. Life is a membership of a community in which each lias to play his part for the good of the whole. School cannot get on without God, because behind all that community life lies Christian faith. An appreciation of this is the most valuable thing about life at school. “In the closing days of your school life, be not afraid to refuse to follow the crowd. Your first loyalty is not to yourself but to the eternal principle of right versus wrong, of love versus self, anu all is summed up in loyalty to Christ.”