BISHOP MOORHOHSE ON SNOBS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1170, 6 November 1883, Page 1

BISHOP MOORHOHSE ON SNOBS.

At Kyneton recently, the Bishop of Melbourne spoke‘ upon snobs. Now what was a snob ? liehsked. Well, in his Opinion, a man who is ‘ stuck up ’ because of some wordly ‘ advantage, or who is ashamed to acknowledge that he did not at one time till as honorable a position as he does now, or is ashamed to acknowledge that his father (who was probably a better man than himself) did not own a very honorable’ position—that man was a snob. (Cheers.) If a man’s father was a dustman—not that a man should boast about that and say ‘My father was a dustman ; look what lam 'that kind of aggressive humility was fust as snobbish as its opposite—but if his (the Bishops)’ father had been a dustman, and a person came to him and said— ‘ Sit, 1 your father was a dustman,’ he i trusted he should have grace to look'that man in the face and reply—‘Yes sir, he was. He gathered his dust by the grace of God, honestly and diligently. /pjCjOuld your father do anything better,' J dr any other man’s father V (Loud chepj's). If they followed their’callings', iti tha| Spirit they would never be,snobs. ' Wplj, then; let every man stop in the calling'wherein he is placed, if a man is a shoemaker, let him try to make better shoes 1 than anyone. If lie doeslhathe may be sure that bye-and-bye someone will ‘fake him In hand anld say, £ My friend, make shoes so well that ydii must be fit for something betterand in that better position, if Tie continues the same course, someone will again up higher by the hair ofihis head. But they must not do it for the sake jof ,going up. Bishop Whately well said, ‘ Honesty is the best .policy; but if a man is honest duly tor that'roaSon’ he won’t be honest long.’ Let a raa.i he honest, true, persevering and courageous, because it is the will of God f and because it is right. If he does that, whether fie go up or down, whether he be here,or there, he will have the ‘ peace all understanding’in life,*ahd will pass through the shaddyvsthat hang over his earthly pilgrimage, and come “at last into that vision,of God where‘a man gets not because he was born iii the purple, but because he took the ,little task which God gave, and did it for His glory, and for the benefits of his friends and fellow creatures., (Loud applause).