THE THOUGHTS OF LEADERS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 11 October 1920, Page 4

THE THOUGHTS OF LEADERS.

| THE KING ON EDUCATION. 1 (From tlie London Correspondent of Christchurch "Press.”) The King at Swansea: — "Most truly was it said. ‘Where there ia no vision the people perish. Without vision the people of Wale:: would never have had a university . I without vision they cannot hope to 1 build up a worthy and enduring stria‘l lure upon the foundations now to bt laid. The future prosperity, indeed tiie existence, of commerce and indu“ trv, will depend more and more up o a the high standar of learning and in telligencc in all who direct thei operations. The race will be to th highly trained, the battle to the well [ equipped. In these days we are learnj : ing that it is not enough for a univer sity to open its doors wide; it must also help to bring new opportunitie; for soriuus study to the very doors othe people. The reulmitiou nf sucli 1 widely conceived programme should I give the college a genuine university S atmosphere, in which teachers and § students with various Interests will be brought' together. In this daily intm course with one another they will find ■g tlieir ltest safeguard from the dartgei £ of too one-sided or material an out M look. Efficiency is much, but it is not II nil. We must never forget that edues fa lion is a preparation for life, and that 0 ' its true aim is the enlargement of the 9 human spirit.” “ ROYAL TRIBUTE TO MERCHANT | SEAMEN. j | The Duke of York, at a Convalcs- | ' cent Home for Seafarers: — j “It has needed the war to teach us | I 1 |,e vital value of the mercantile 5 | murine. In the Grand Fleet I had J ! many opportunities of realising the i high qualities of those men of the j merchant service who served in tho 5 | Koval Navy, but of the heroic courage $ | and unflinching endurance of those j brave men who served in the meri chant ships, what words can be said!

They need none. The country now realises to the full how, in those dark days when the issue of the grim

struggle hung in the balance, it was the unforgettable' men of the mercantile marine who, scorning all dangers and perils of tho sett, ensured the food supply of their comrades at the front, and of their fellow-workers at home.

There is something very heroic to me in a man who lias been torpedoed and immersed, volunteering straight away to go back to the same risks. His was not the courage of ignorance, but the deathless courage of duty to be done, and well and worthily did the British seaman do that duty. The war is happily over, and we have, among the problems of ])eace, the knowledge gained at the bitter expense of 15,000 British seamen's lives that the future welfare of this country is bound up with our seaborne trade, and we must therefore try to look after our merchant seamen who. day in and day out. year in and year out, carry on the vital work which makes our great Empire what it is.”

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OP AMERICA. The Bishop of Tennessee, at West minster Abbey:—

• ” Whatever "the Epi.vnpal Church in ! | the United States is tu-ilny is largely | due to the prayers and gifts, and the ! untiring interest of the Society for the | Propagation of the Gospel. The Epis ! copal Church by no means deserves • the slighting reference made to it by j one of your living English divines, j* that, ‘it is the obscure sect of a few | rich people.’ That Church has to-day S three and a half million baptised ; members in f>S dioceses, and 33 domes--5 tie and foreign missionary districts I with GOOD clergy, and 12* bishops in ! the House of Bishops, while its annual offerings amount to 23,000.000 dollars. I , When we think that this Church was j organised only 130 years ago. we must give thanks and praise., It proves the vitality of those principles of religion which we have been accustomed to describe as Anglican—viz., the jealous j maintenance of historical continuity ' in organisation and worship, combined j with large freedom of thought ami ' interpretation. For. while the Episcopal Church in America is distinctlv Awerican and democratic, developing on its own lines special life and char actcr. it is sufficiently faithful to the principles of the family tradition to continue to be, —and proud to be—a daughter of the Church of England.” UNION OP CHURCHES. The Rev. Canon Scott Rain, addressing the Wesleyan Methodist Conference: — ' ‘‘The fact that Christian re-union occupies the attention of the W esleyau Methodist Conference, and of the i Bishops of the Anglican Church at Lambeth, marks an epoch. For many years both sides have been thinking ! and praying for re-union. Mueh has | been done by personal contact, ex- ■ change of ideas, frank and friendly, and by working together. In many movements and efforts we have come j to something better than mere mutual • toleration. Enthusiasts will tell you • that in a year or two the Wesleyan i Conference and the Anglican assembly , I will meet together in one building, under one presidency. Would that were likely! There has been a great stirring of hearts and minds on both J sides, and we have learnt that we are ; gTeatly in need of each other. Even if the leaders on both sides see the ! way "clear to re-union, it will take • time to bring the rank and file to the ( same opinion. ll i ; j SCHISMATICS IN CHRISTENDOM. ; Dean Inge, at Hull: — “I am not a member of the Lemboik but after what I

have heard from some, of the Bishops, I wish I could hope for some valuable constructive proposals from them. 1 am not without hope. But I. am not very' confident. T fear the leaders of ortr Church are dominated by the feat of an Anglo-Catholic secession. There is a party in the ATiglican Church who arc Nlrc only real schismatics in Chirstendom, and have shown the true schismatical temper by constantly threatening that if they don't get their own way they will disrupt the Oliui eh—either go to Home or to somo body of their own. lam afraid ou> .leaders in the Lambeth Conference ' are afraid of those men. The one thing wc Anglicans have to put away from us is the delusive dream of union with Rome.”

BAD ECONOMY.

Lord Salisbury', at Hatfield: — "You cannot have liberty unless you. have true economy. No one is so tied ns the man who is 'hard up.’ We all know it—most of us are hard up now. What is true of the individual is true of the country. If the country is hard up, it cannot do what it would like and what it should to-day'. /The „nlv way in which you can regain liberty as a nation is by practising 'rue economy. We must get rid of alt this waste, resist anything like extra-

vagance and all those subsidies, those doles, this money paid by the hardearned incomes of every class in the community in order to help out the already, high wages of certain trade unionists. That appears to be both Sad economy and bad liberty.”