OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1883, 31 March 1913, Page 7

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

! ADVERTISING THE CHURCH. i London, February 18. | The Bishop of Willesden: "The building of a cnurch is an outward sign of the growth and development of the old Church of England. There are pessimists to-day who say the Church is either moribund or dead. On the contrary, it is very much alive. It was fifty years ago that the Bishop of London's Fund was started, and since then it has assisted in the building of 250 churches in the diocese of London, while the London Diocesan Home Mission, founded five years before that, has taken upon itself to provide the clergy and see that there are 19 or 20 men in the diocese of London working in connection with this mission. Yet we are told the Church of England is doing nothing. I do think that the Church does not let it be known what it is doing as it ought. Other great bodies, perhaps, a little bit exceed in the way of advertising, but we in the Church of England err in the other way."

"DON'TS" FOR ALL. Mr Will Crooks, at Whitefields Tabernacle: "The dividing line of the East and the West is the Old Bailey. In the stone over the portico there is carved, 'Save the children: Defend the poor.' I don't know what they put that there for. I should not go there to defend the poor; I should think a better defence would be to keep them out of j it. The day has gone by when from our pulpits we can corrupt the Catechism and say, 'Be content • with your position.' The position tor the worker's boys or girls is any position God has given them the capacity to fill. The defence of the Empire depends on protecting the children of the people. "Don't argue when you are tired; you can't do it. "Don't take the workshop home with you. "Don't talk trouble before the children. "Don't 'swank.' "Don't think you can't be done'; you can. "Don't think you are worse than other people, and don't think you are better; you're not. "Don't think you have a constant job—the man in the cemetery has got that. "Don't talk of being master in your own house. You might be | while you are there, but you have j got to go out. "Don't get angry; no one cares if you do." THEATRE GROOVES. Mr Rutland Barrington, at the Playgoers' Club:—"As the reputation of the artist increases, the style of the part becomes identified with the artist's name, and handicaps him in his profession. Versatility should be the great asset of an actor, but I regret to say that it is extremely doubtful whether that is the case. Modern audiences prefer to welcome the personality and even the mannerisms of their favourites. Offering myself as an example, I have been playing comedy for some years past, but my name is so firmly associated with the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan that I have been asked if I am still in Gilbert and Sullivan opera at the Savoy. Writers of plays seem to work in grooves. Some years ago we were saturated with the socalled 'problem' play, and lately there seems to have been a surfeit of 'bedroom' plays. For the moment it seems as if dialect is having its innings. There is also a 'ragtime' groove, which has something extremely fascinating about it, but it appears to have been 'cut' so deeply as to offer hopes of a not too prolonged existence. There is one groove that I fear London audiences will never get out of—that of arriving too late and of leaving before the close of the performance, both of which proceedings are more distressing to the performers than the prepecrators can possibly suppose. A CARDINAL ON SYNDICALISM. Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic j Archbishop of Westminster "Syndicalism, to be effective, must embrace every farm of public service, I even to the police, the Army, the Navy. Such proposals, in my opinion, strike at the root of those conceptions of public order and of national safety and patriotism which are deep down in the hearts of the j vast majority of mankind, and are ; nowhere more reverenced than Here | in England. For that reason alone j I regard Syndicalism as a Utopia in no way consonant with common . sense or the teachings of economic j history. It seems to ignore among other things, the rights of private , ownership, which the Church has . ever defended as being entirely in harmony with the law of God. I have, while admitting in extreme cases the necessity of lock-outs and j strikes, pointed out that, owing to i the misery they inflict on number- ; loss persons in no way responsible j for the matters in dispute, some , powerful justifying cause is requir- ■ eu before they can be regarded as ' legitimate. For the same reason she sympathetic lock-out or strike can hardly ever be justified, while the idea of a universal strike ap-

ears to me contrary to every principle of justice or charity. Considering the subject as a Roman Catholic Bishop speaking to those who hold the Roman Catholic faith, I would point out tiiat the Syndicalist campaign is promoted, inspired, and directed exclusively by those who neither affect nor practise the teachings of Christianity, while many of them do not recognise in any way God or His law. Roman Catholics realise and deplore more fully and moie practically the existence of evils which Syndicalists seek to cure, but it is not in such theories as Syndicalism but in Hie frank acceptance of fundamental, unchangeable facts that the beginning of a remedy is to be found.''