BISHOP MOOREHOUSE ON SNOBS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5210, 8 November 1883, Page 2

BISHOP MOOREHOUSE ON SNOBS.

4> At Kyneton the Bishop of Melboure spoke upon snobs. Now what was a snob Ihe asked. Well, in his opinion, a man who is "stuck up " because of some worldly advantage, or who is ashamed to acknowledge that he did not at one time fill as honourable a position as he does now, or is ashamed to acknowledge that his father (who was probably a better man than himself) did not hold a very honourable position — that man was a snob. (Cheers. ) If a man's father was a dustman — not that a man should boast about than and say : "My father was a dutsman ; look what I am ;" that kind of aggressive humility was just as snobbish as its opposite — but if his (the Bishop's) father had been a dustman, and a person catne to him and said, " Sir, your father was a dustman," he trusted he should have grace to look that man in the face, and reply, " Yes, sir, he was. He gathered hit* dust, by the grace of God, honestly and diligently. Could your father do anything better, or any other man's father ?" (Loud cheers). If they followed their callings in that spirit they would never be snobs. Well, then, let every man stop in the calling wherein he is placed. If a man ia a shoemaker, let him try to make better shoes than anyone. If he does that he may be sure that by-and-bye some one will take him by the hand and say, "My friend, you make shoes so well that sou must be fit for something batter ;" and in that better position, if he continues the same course, someone will again drag him np higher by the hair of his head. But they must not do it for the sake of going up. . Bishop Whately wll said, " Honesty is the best policy, but if a man is honest only for that reason he won't be honest long." Let a man be honeßt, true, persevering, and courageous, because it is the will of God, and because it is right. If he does that, whether ! he go up or down, AFhether he be here or there, he will have the "peace which passeth all understanding " in this life, and will pass through the shadows that hang over his earthly pilgrimage, and come at last into that vision of God where a man gets not because he was born in the purple, but because he took the little task which God gave, and did it for His glory, and for the benefit of his friends and fellow creatures. (Loud applause).