THE HEW SPIRIT IN IRELAND.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE HEW SPIRIT IN IRELAND.

The election of the Rev. Dr. Bernard, Bishop of Ossory, as Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, iy, says the London Daily Chronicle, specially welcome in view of the eloquent tribute paid by the new Primate a few weeks ago to the patriotic devotion exhibited by his ltoman Catholic countrymen in tno present war. As he truly said, the best blood of Ireland, north and south, has been poured out freely in the common cause of King and country and freedom. "The same grass grows over their graves in the far-off lands." Dr. Bernard believes the memory of these things must soften the bitterness ot political antagonisms, and to him it had become unthinkable that Irishmen would ever draw the sword against Irishmen because of political differences. Some cynics said 1 at the time that this speech, as just and large-hearted as it was eloquent, would cost Dr. Bernard the primacy for which he was regarded as a powerful candidate. To the credit of Irish Protestantism it has done nothing of the kind. The election of Dr. Bernard as Archbishop is a happy sign of the new spirit in Ireland.