A BISHOP ON DEFENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10716, 8 October 1912, Page 4

A BISHOP ON DEFENCE.

Preaching at St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland, on Sunday afternoon in connection with the unveiling of a tiblet in memory of the late Colonel Abbott, the Anglican Bishop of Auckland (Dr. Orossley) said that there were groat anxieties looming ahead in the world of international politics. Xew 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 locked 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 deni'iids upon your time, .ft 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 < f the value of military training in fostering the fine characteristics that marked the late Col-, onel Abbott out among his fellows.