AN UNCONVENTIONAL BISHOP

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 173, 16 April 1919, Page 8

AN UNCONVENTIONAL BISHOP

Lieutenant-Colonel Long, Bishop, of Bathurst, New South Wales, and Director of Education "for the Australian Forces, is certainly the most unconven. tional prelate now in London, He appeared in khaki at a meeting ,of tho Colonial Institute, in the Central Jlnll without even a trace of the clerical insignia that mark the Anglican chaplain, and his address breathed that spirit of freedom and camaraderie that we associate with the men of the. Antipodes. Sir William Birdwood, the distinguisboci general of tho Australian Army, who pre. sided, told us that the Bishop had voFuntarily left his diocese to serve as a humble chaplain, so as entirely to j't-i to know the soldiers and serve alongside of them. It was an interesting story lift related of the educational work that he is now superintending. At present SO.OOft men are putting in from four to IWo bonis a dnv studvins; from a list of 10ft different subjects in the curriculum. Bishon Long tore warm testimony'to (he educational hospitality of this country. Of all the universities he found Oxford and Cambridge the most radical am! ready to.move. He believes Australia is on the eve of a now creative neviod in her development.—"Christian World."

Belgian schoolmasters have unanimously resolved to break off all relations with German schoolmasters, iml tho "Barbers' Union" has decided not to admit any Germans among its members.