IN THE “COLONIES”

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12617, 30 November 1926, Page 6

IN THE “COLONIES”

“FRIVOLOUS SELF-INDULGENCE” MORE BLATANT THAN IN ENGLAND AS A BISHOP SEES IT By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 28. If avid, arrogant secularism is too often the temper of colonial society; if the passion for money-making and tho appetite for frivolous self-indul-gence is even more blatant in the new English communities than in tho old, can the English dioceses which are shaping the immigrants disown a measure of responsibility for that melancholy and portentous fact?” asked the Bishop of Durham when preaching at Durham Cathedral. He added that the coal stoppngo doubtless would necessitate an organised effort overseas for tho migration of multitudes of people who were permanently unemployed. It would he a grave reflection if tho crude, naked regularisatiou, to which clergymen are accustomed as being deplorable hut unavoidable in their own parishes, should be tho foundation of popular life in tho Dominions. Migrants might bo mentally and physically excellent, but thejr moral and spiritual equipment must occasion profound anxiety.