Chronicle-1940

for each pupil at the different universities and colleges to see how this is affected by numbers. However, I fear that my voice is just one crying in the wilderness." The health of the school had been good, and the games and Cadet Corps well up to the usual standard. "The moral tone of the school has been satisfactory. We have endeavoured to get the school to think seriously about the problems of this mechanic and pleasure-loving age, and about the disastrous state in which the world finds itself to-day. Opportunities have been made for both Archdeacon Heywood Harris and our Chaplain, Rev. F. P. Evans, to hold classes of boys wishing to be confirmed and a number of boys have availed themselves of these opportunities "Once again I want to emphasise the urgent need in this great land of more schools of this type and of more support for those already in existence. Stress can not be laid on the religious side of education in a Govern ment school without running counter to the attitude of some section of the community or other, but here we have a free hand, and we do endeavour, without stressing any special division in the great Church of Christ, to uphold the broad principles of our Master, His love and His fellowmen, His sympathy with the down-trodden. His perfect faith and trust in God. "Dorothy Sayers, in her admirable little pamphlet, has pointed out that once more we are waging a religious war, a war of ideologies, and if the forces of paganism win, there is little hope for the average man for at least a generation. One of the main causes of our present diffi culties has been the training of the youth of Germany in the schools that nothing is wrong if it tends to the aggran dizement of the State. In the same way we can only prevent a repetition of the calamities of to-day if we inculcate into the minds of our youth the essentials of the Christian ethic. "For 18 years at Synod and at Conference I have been preaching the deep need of more denominational schools. The Roman Catholic and the Church of the Province have not been slow to see this need and the other Protestant churches have lost many adherents because they have failed in this matter. Education for generations was one of the special spheres of church activity, and it is sad to see how it has been secularised in these days. "But a'church'school without its own Chapel seems to be an anomaly, and I feel that thisis one of the crying needs of this new school. I have opened a fund for the building of a Chapel in the days to come, and already 54

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