MEMORIAL TO BISHOP SELWYN.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5390, 6 July 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)

MEMORIAL TO BISHOP SELWYN.

The committee appointed to raise a Selwyn Memorial (says the European Mail) have submitted a series of resolutions for the approval , and liberal support of the members of the Church of Englond, and of all the Churches in communion with her, and of all those everywhere to whom the memory of-Bishop Selwyn :is clear. The first resolution aims at providing i a monumental effigy, to be placed in one of the mortuary, chapels in the -Lady Chapel of Lichfield Cathedral, which shall hand on a faithful likeness of the great missionary bishop to future generations. With regard to the second resolution, the committee desire earnestly to recommexid the establishment of a college in the University of Cambridge, to be called the Selwyn College. The distinctive features of the proposed college would be that it should be founded upon the broad but definite basis of the Church of England, neither less nor more ; and further, that its aim should be to encourage habits of simple living, and to develop the Christian character in the students.. The committee have reason to think that large numbers of the clergy and professional classes' generally would be glad to have it in their power to give to their sons the advantages of a university education at Cambridge in a college founded on these principles. The college would be open for the admission of such students. It would also include provision for the special training of those’ who may desire to devote, themselves to missionary work, whether at home or abroad. The committee believe there Js room for such an institution • in the University of Cambridge ; and they have already re- ! ceived encouraging assurances of support from some distinguished residents in thO'XJuiversity, and from others who, though non-resident, may be supposed to be acquainted with the circumstances. , They confidently recommend this proposal to found in the university of which the late bishop was so illustrious a member a college which shall aim at fashioning its students after the example of the burning zeal, the high courage, .and the mauly Christianity of George Augustus Selwyn.