A CHURCH OF PEACE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 3

A CHURCH OF PEACE

WELLINGTON ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL. In the beginning of the political, commercial ancl social life of New Zealand, there was no central city in which were stored the country's records, and where the legislators and business men foregathered periodically. It was a scattered community in those days. The capital was Auckland, the chief business centre, Dunedin,. while Canterbury and Nelson and Hawke's Bay wero powerful provinces which desired recognition as sucli. But, one by one, the secular interests of tho country—private and public—transferred theiv headquarters to Wellington, the geographically central port. And as tho secular affairs now have their direction in the main from Wellington, so the headquarters of the Church of England will almost certainly be transferred to Wellington. With .this idea before thorn Anglican Church people and well-wiehers aro expected to respond nobly to the appeal now being made for funds to oroct a beautiful cath-

edral as a memorial to the' men who died for freedom; and, also, as a thankofToring, for pence. After the splendid responses which havo been mnde to worthy causes during the war period, such an expectation may be regarded as an accomplished fact. The war has taught many lessons, and one of these is that the strength of a nation does not lie in its material wealth, its army or its navy, but in the spiritual richness of its people—the eternal «rinciples of truth, justice, and equity. A fine cathedral is moTc than it mass of masonry or a triumph of the architect's and builder's arts. It is a sign and symbol of a fuitli which lifts men's . thoughts to the highest planes—a faith in God, which when matched with tho enemy's gross materialism, vanquished materialism. This appeal for people to fiend their free offerings; (o build a cnlhodral in Wellington, is a call to all churchmen and well-wishers to immortaliso this triumph, with its attendant losses and glories, in the capital city of New Zealand. Full particulars of the project fire obtainable from the lion, organieing secretary, Raw C. T. Askew, St. Mark's Vicarage, Wellington, to I whom all contributions should be mado. 1 -Advt.