THOSE LEAVING SCHOOL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 6

THOSE LEAVING SCHOOL

-Press Association.)

Advice by the Bishop of Wellington

(By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, This Day. Advice to tliose who are soon to leave scliool was given by the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland at a special service last night at St. l'aul's I'ro-Cathedral at which clergymen of other denoniinations were present. Representatives from 11 Wellington colleges attended. The lesson- was taken from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, XII, 1-17,23, and was read by a prefect of Wellington College. "As I look at you this evening, I feel you are all standing on a bridge, bridging tlie gulf between twonvorlds," said Bishop Holland. "One is the world of scjhool where you have spent mqny years and the other side of the gulf is that other world with all its freedom and all its possibilities of adventure, a world in which 'the discipline of school has got to be succeeded by selfdiscipline. "We may never be able to say wliat school had done for us, yet beneath the surface there is always something in iife that we would never have had but for the years in the community of school. That 'something' is, to me, the sense it has brought us that life is noc a game of smash and grab. Life is a membership of a community in which cach has to play his part for the good of the whole. School cannot get on without God, because behind1 all that community life lies Christian .faith. An appreciatlon of this is the most valuable thing about life at school. "In the closing days of your school life, be not afraid to refuse to follow the crowd. Your first loyalty is not to yourself but to the eternai principles of right versus wrong, of love versus self, and all is summed up in loyalty to Christ."