A CHURCH OF PEACE.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 January 1919, Page 5

A CHURCH OF PEACE.

WELLINGTON ANGLICAN

CATHEDRAL

In the beginning of the political, commercial, and social life of New Zealand, there was no central city in which were stored the country’s records, and where the legislators and. business men foregathered periodically*. It was a scattered community in those days. The capital was Auckland, the chief business centre Dunedin, while Canterbury and Nelson and Hawke’s Bay were powerful provinces which desired recognition as such. But, one by one, the secular interests of the country—private and public—transferred their headquarters to Wellington, the geographically central port. And as the secular affairs now have their direction in the main from Wellington, so the headquarters of the Church of England will almost certainly be transferred to Wellington. With this idea before them, Anglican Church people and well-wishers are expected to respond nobly to the appeal now being made for funds to erect a beautiful cathedral as a memorial to the men who died for freedom; and, also, as a thank-offering for peace. After the splendid responses which have been made to worthy causes during the war period, such an expecta- | tion may be regarded as an accomplishj ed fact.

The war has taught many lessons, and ofie of these is that the strength, of a nation does not lie in its material wealth, its army or its navy, but in the spiritual richness of its poeple the eternal principles of truth, justice, and equity. A masonry or a triumpn of the architect’s and builder’s arts. It is a sign and symbol of a faith "which lifts men’s thoughts to the highest planes—a faith in God which, when matched with the enemy’s gross materialism, vanquished materialism. This appeal for people to send their free offerings to build a cathedral in Wellington is a call to all churchmen and well-wishers to immortalise this triumph with its attendant losses and glories, in the capital city of New Zealand. Full particulars of the proje-T are obtainable from the h'on. organising secretary. Rev. C. F Askew. St. Mark’s Vicarage. Wellington, to whom an contributions should be made.