FAREWELL TO DIOCESE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22421, 18 May 1936, Page 10

FAREWELL TO DIOCESE

WELLINGTON BISHOP-ELECT HAPPY LIFE IN ENGLAND [FROM OI7R OWN CORRESPONDENT] LONDON. April 25 Archdeacon H. St. B. Holland of Warwick, Bishop-designate of Wellington. has written the following farewell message in the Coventry Diocesan Gazette, on the eve of his departure from the diocese: — "1 am young enough to feel the thrill of adventure as I look forward to my new responsibilities and opportunities in an unknown land. I am old enough to have a vivid realisation of my own limitations and of the diffidence which they create in me. And J am human enough to feel intensely the pain of uprooting and of the breaking-up of a wonderfully happy home-life. "1 confess that my heart sinks within me when I think of the happy work and the host of good and true friends that I shall leave behind me. But I go away richer for the friendships, and aware of the debt which I owe to the diocese for having given me such a wonderful training for my work as an overseas bishop. 1 go, too, knowing that the friendships 1 have made are the sort that do not either die or fade away, and that I may rel.v on them, and on their expression in thought and prayer as a source of real encouragement and inspiration in the new and untried life to which I have bfien called."