AN EPISCOPAL JOUST.
POST OFFICE PICTURES UNDER FIRE.
“There are two respects in which all men are equal,” said Bishop Julius at the Thanksgiving service yesterday. “Every man of us has something of the tragic about him ? and every man something of the comic in his composition. All our literature is bound up in this similarity. We have our cheery tales and our sad tales. Our sad tales tell of broken hearts and our Cheery tales of broken heads, and the two bind us together. All of us have to face the tragedy of death, sin, suffering and sorrow; that belongs to us all and goes towards making men serious, hut the infinite variety of life which is so full of interests and amusement provides the comedy. ‘ 1 A Scotchman is a very serious person, but no mortal ’on earth is more amusing. The Englishman is full of interest in variety and amusement, hut lie knows his serious times, while the Irishman is such a mixture of humour and pathos that when I look at him I do not know whetlipr to laugh or tq weep. (Laughter./ “I love the crowded streets,” he added, “for there is-more to interest and amuse me there than I find in any book, and all the amusement of toe Peace celebrations is intensified by those solemn portraits that look down upon us from the Post Office.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12698, 21 July 1919, Page 4
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