HEADMASTER OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 5

HEADMASTER OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

PREACHES FAREWELL SERMON.

"SERVE ME BY SERVING THE SCHOOL."

(Special to "The Colonist."}

Christohurch, June 1

Mr E. A. Belcher, who is retiring from the headmaster ship of Christ's College, preached a farewell sermon m the college chapel last night. He dealt with the matter of permanence of institutions, and referred especially to the permanence of public schools. The first condition of a bis schools permanence, he said, was a high Christian standard, and it was within, the walls of the chapel that one must look for the greatest inspiration, lhe second condition of permanence, which every "rent school must possess, was diligence from its scholars. A coimtry like New Zealand Would not be willing to tolerate an idle school, nor pno which trained its pupils for a lite or idl'Tnatarally desire," said Mr Belcher in conclusion, "to refrain irom saving in this sermon anything, which may have any personal application. I Stild not doit! and I have no desire that the memory of my last service her© should be spoiled by it, I have two thiU to say. If there is anybody here vW desires to remember me, I snail best like to be remembered bythe things which very imperfectly I tried to say m thi« chapel. If there is anybody here who wants to serve me, he can best serve, and only serve mo, by seiua^ the school."