A BISHOP'S VIEWS ON DEFENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 118, 5 October 1912, Page 4

A BISHOP'S VIEWS ON DEFENCE.

Preaching at St. Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, on Sunday afternoon in connection ivitli the unveiling of a tablet in memory of the late Colonel Abbott, the Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Crossley) said that there were great anxieties looming ahead in the world of international politics. New Zealand could not save the Empire, but she might be the cause of that first blow which might mean the dissolution of the Empire if she merely looked at some little rift instead of realising the bigness of the rift to the Empire. '"We are taking steps, and I think right steps," he said, "and the manhood of the Dominion has responded nobly to the call to service. But the country must respond more generously yet. It will cost us more money than we have yet spent before efficiency can be reached. But your individual contributions 'will assist. Pay without grumbling the demands upon your time. It is not our duty or our ambition to attack, but it is, God helping us, to defend our homes, our firesides, and our children." In his concluding remarks, the Bishop spoke of the value of military training in fostering the fine characteristics that marked the late Colonel Abbott out among his fellows.