WAR FUNDS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 528, 19 October 1915, Page 11

WAR FUNDS.

A STRONG HAND NEEDED. VIEWS OF BISHOP JULIUS. In the course of references to the war in his address to the Synod tliis afternoon Bishop Julius said: — "I wish we could devise a better coordination of the funds which are being raised, and that a strong hand could be kept on the innumerable special funds which, with the best of intentions in the world, are being exploited. I wish, however, that it were possible to raise ithe suras required without demoralising the nation. lam no strict Puritan, and would be the last in the world to put discouragement in the way of those who are working so heartily for the Empire. But I believe that it is possible, tp raise the money without recourse to unworthy methods, which, however successful for the moment, will fail in the long run, and leave, an unholy trail behind them. After all, it is not only the sacrifice, or the amount of sacrifice, but the "spirit in which it is made, that will count in this war. It is the supreme business of the nation at: such a time as this to cultivate ' a noble and lofty spirit."