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AN APPEAL

TO COLLEGE IDEALS SOME GUIDING PRINCIPALS Speaking at King’s College, Auckland, the CoVernor-Generah, ; Lord Bledislori, put forcefully before past and present pupils the responsibilities which their special educational advantages entailed upon them aiid the iihpdrtan'ce of standing firmly by the high ideals learned at the college. His Excellency spoke at the dose of‘ an impressive service conducted iii the college chapel in connee" tioiv with the bid hoys’ reunion. .Lord iiledisloe said he had had' no intention <>f addressing them, and it had been suggested to him only after he entered the school premises: “There is nothing that I know more'inspiring,’' he said, “than seeing in a beautiful school chapel such as this the boys of a great public school assembled togetner and joining in some annual service with tlie old boys of the school—those who are preparing for life’s battle under flic best possible auspices and those who have gone out to fight it.

gathered together in the counts of the House of God. It is that inspiration

which induces me to say a few words <to you. in supplement- of the eloquent and powerful words which you have heard from your headmaster in his sermon.

POWER OF PERSONALITY When,! last-visited King’s College T ventured to remind the boys whom I was addressing that the greater their educational ’ advantages) the' greater their responsibilities in after life. I have had a growing Conviction since I have' represented His Majesty the King in this favoured Dominion that flic future of -this Romirion depends very largely upon the human output of such schools as King’s College, Auckland, Christ’s College, ■Christchurch, and ifhe Wanganui Collegiate School and the use which they make of their educational equipment and to the extent to which they maintain their school ideals in after life.

The world to-day appears! to he in a. At afe of chaos. We flatter" ourselves that the! democracies’ are thfe great nations of the world and are ruling their own destinies arid those of the world; hut one cannot look around upon the-world to-day without being conscious—perhaps bitterly conscious—’.of, it.be herd instinct in ! the nations. ’ Whether wo iro to such countries as ■ Germany. Italy, pr even the great Eng-lish-sneaking democracy of America, one cannot help feeling that it it not so liurii democracy which is influencing their fortunes as some powerful person' ality who is capable of moulding demo-cracy-for good or evil.” ....

His Excellency said that as he thought of that fine old bidding prayer to which ho had listened again and 'again in. Oxford and the old Tuner Temple Church of the City, of London :—that fhorg might never be .lacking fit ,mcn to serve God in Church and State • —l),e was always inclined to add “and may they not only be fit -as they emerge from these great homes of education, but may they maintain their 'fitness, after they leave;; these doors.”

IMPORTANCE OF CHARACTER They Is new that in schools such as those the .foundation was well and trulv ilaid, and that as they lelit King’s Colli ego they would go fort It equipped with tlie conviction that character was going .ito tell more than anything else in the success of their lives and with a rooted faith in 'God, without which they were not going to achieve the.best. “I believe yon leave King’s College with the determination to do something for .v'our country and for your Empire, as well as for yourself,” said Lord 'Rlodisloe. “Well, old hovs, how difficult it is, is i,t not, to adhere to this determination, to pursue those ideals when we are brought in contact with’ the rough and tumble of the world? We know, all of us, whether we he young or old, the appalling temptations that meet ’ uS almost at every step; and those of us who are old enough know that every time wo are strong enough to resist temptation our strength to meet the next temptation .is enormously .increased. What, when you • come away from school, are your basic principles in life ? .Surely from a school like this they are faith Tn God—and I was asked this morning to read to your a chapter emphasising the .enormous importance of . faith in God—love of truth, and love of your country and ’ your.. Empire. In these days, when opinion upon every imaginable subject is unsettled, necessarily and inevitably attacks are made upon the foundations of our. faith. . • , LOVE OF TRUTH

“I will ask you if-you are tempted to re,move your anchorage , from the surest rock, upon which, after all the -great British Empire ..has been built, Ito look around upon those who still have their.anchorage in that rock, and ask yourselves whether their lives are not on the whole, happier and more useful to tile community than ■those wh 0 have drifted away from that anchorage. 1 cannot help fooling that love of truth and all that, truth means will enable all the great problems of the. world' to be solved mu ell more rapidly.- It was, I think, the. poet Cowpor Avlio said, ‘lt is true , all '.the slaves • besides.’ And in the man whom the truth .makes free, And words of- Shakespeare, To thine own 1 self be true, And it must follow ns the night the day Thou canst not, i|hen he false to any man.” Surely that love' of truth ought to go-far to solve our own dometio problems and those of: our country and of the world,” I

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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6

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AN APPEAL Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6

AN APPEAL Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1933, Page 6

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