OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

Opunake Times, 8 January 1935, Page 2

OPUNAKE TIMES Speaks for the District. TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1935 ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD

New Zealand will not recover easily or rapidly from the blow which it has suffered in .he death l of Archbishop Bedwood. In the hour of his death tbe community knows no divisions of cla.ss or creed. His good works and his faith in God, not the manner of their profession, are the things by which his memory will live on. The late Archbishop may truthfully be called the father of tbe Christian religion in New Zealand. At a time when many iof tbe leaders of ibis country ■were mere boys, and others wer« yet to be born, he was a promin■crvt and national figure. His example and inspiration had permeated beyond the confines of his Church, lifting him to an eminence that increased with the pass ing of the years. Born in the yeai before the signing of the Treaty of AVuitangi, Archbishop Bedwood arrived in New Zealand twr* years after the Treaty was concluded, and his life has been synchronous with almost the whole of the history of British rule in this Dominion. Throughout bis life be had always taken tbe broader view. Not for his Church; not for religion alone hut for national growth and culture. were his services always available. He was the cedar of Lebanon indeed in his aspirations and majestic appearance, in the power shown in building the temple of God in this country, and in the peace and comfort he had I brought to others. The orphan, it be foundling, the aged, the poor and llte sick each found in him a hand to feed, clothe, soothe ihem rtnd heal their wounds. Those v?ho fee] the personal loss of his parting, and those who only kirmv him as _ great national figure; will he united in grief for Ills death.