TROUBLES OF TO-DAY

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1932, Page 12

TROUBLES OF TO-DAY

■ C-'-- “* : NEED FOR PREPAREDNESS -f • ■■ ’ *■ ARCHBISHOPS ADVICE. W VALUE OF BROAD TRAINING. ■ - ' The ■ troubles of to-day and. of the futuw .' were discussed by Archbishop Julius in his address at the prize-giving | ceremony of St Margaret’s ’ College in Christchurch.-; • , . “It is not easy for me to speak to you* to-night,” he began, “because the girls I knew and loved—and there were plenty bf them— were so different from the girls of to-day. Anyone would be I' quito justified in getting up and saying ;?to you. ‘He doesn’t knovJ what he is t talking about’ . “It is a great many years ago now ainc* I. first came out to Australia from • ■ London—m a sailing ship of about 1200 /' ton*. There were no luxuries on that $ ship. The deck was covered with ropes fe iihd gyar and with fowls, and whenever :■ one of -those fowls, which we had petted •z and grown fond of, disappeared, we knew there was going to be curry for "dinner. There was also a cow, which provided us first with milk, and later .. with beef. It was a very homely ship . ’ “Sometimes on that voyage we met z iwith rough weather and were thrown | about' and made , perhaps cold and uncomfortable, but the days passed steadily • by aai we travelled further , and further ' from the old world and nearer and near- ( ar to. the new. '. “AT MERCY OF THE STORM. “Now, I want you to suppose that you are on board that ship, and that one day the captain comes up from his cabin . with a .very grave look on his face. He >- rails his officers and talks with them, ■/ and still he looks anxious, though he tries to hide*it from the. passengers. The fact is that he has never seen the baro- , meter; so. low, and, though the sea is ; V smooth and the sky clear,- he is worried. ' Though he cannot be sure what is coming he knows there will be a heavy sea and much wind. “So he makes everything fast on his S; ship, sends his crew to take in sail and gto see that the ropes and gear, are sound, and perhaps he warns the passengers. Presently a great cloud crosses the sky and covers it, and last a great gust of g, wind • strikes the ship. She heels over and something carries away, and there ;.z. is‘the ship drifting helplessly at the mercy' of the storm—though the captain had known beforehand that it was coming. THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE.

“This suggests a parallel with our present, case. There was the Great War, the barometer of the world fell low, and we 4 knew something was coming, though we c could ’not be sure just what it was . ’ going ?to be. We do not know yet. ’ Ydii can ask qne of your leaders—and you have very few these days—but they will not be able to tell you either from where our present troubles have come or from where those of the future are coming. All they know ip what we Y know—that ..trouble is about us and in store for us. y ‘That is one of the reasons why lam A proud to be an Englishmap to-day. I im proud of the fine, firm stand -Eng- > land -.has taken in her troubles and of •. the’way in which she is setting her house in order against the future and , preparing for what I devoutly hope may never come.” The 'archbishop concluded his address by "advising the girls to remember the ■ value ©f a broad training. “We do not ‘know, what the future holds for us,” -he said, ‘‘and we must train ourselves to ,3 be prepared for anything. It is rieces5 sary to learn other things besides the subjects for matriculation. We may be [-■ wrecked in the storm, but whether we |re or not, it behoves us to be ready for it.”..:, '