BISHOP’S RETIREMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 7

BISHOP’S RETIREMENT

FIFTY YEARS OF KINDNESS. In a microphone interview on July 4 (National), the retiring Bishop of London was asked what he would reply to the question "to what» do you consider the greatest part, of your life has been devoted?" Dr. Ingram said: "I have worked to leave a united Christian London behind me. No quarrelling, all loving one another. I think we arc all united in the common idea of leaving behind us a clean London. We watch every cinema, every theatre, etc. And that, I consider, is my greatest achievement. It represents a very concrete thing which has taken half a century to accomplish. The other cause for thanksgiving is in the Church itself. Thirty years ago there was a great bitterness of party spirit—but that has all changed. I don’t want to represent that we leave London in an ideal condition —but things are very much better than they were. I have been head of the Public Morality Council for 38 years. I was much pleased the other day when they gave me an illuminated address. A Roman Catholic was in the chair: Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, Salvation Army—all met together and joined in the testimonial." In saying good-bye to London, the bishop added that his memory would be always of 50 years of kindness.