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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 488, 2 August 1890, Page 3

A good bull was perpetrated by Mr T. P. O’Connor on the occasion of the recent Hyde Park demonstration against the principle of compensation to publicans. In the very act of oratory, and while he was speaking of the burial of the compensation clauses, he compared himself to a mute at a funeral. The Bishop of Durham (Dr Westcott) appears to be a man in striking contrast to the illiberal men who are so numerous in religious circles at tbe present time. Speaking at a conversazione in the Victoria Hall, Sunderland, on the 10th of June last, he said it had been his happy privilege through ten years of his life to work month after month, side by side with representative scholars from every section of men of the Christian Church, in the endeavor to revise the New Testament. He sat, he remembered, between a Wesleyan Methodist on one side, and a United Presbyterian on the other. They were among his most precious and valued friends. Those of them who were allowed to work together there felt how much of that which separated them was the result of misunderstanding. After some further remarks, he said that they had learnt much in the past from those who had left them, and they would learn much more from those who still remained separated from them. At the same time he could not acquiesce in such divisions as tbe final state of Christendom. They must all work for and pray for some unity which might be visible to the world, bo that, at last, those who stood without should again be able to say as in the first days what most unhappily could not be said now, “ Look how these Christians love one another.*’ The Bishop takes a lively interest in social problems, and the previous evening sat on the platform side by side with Ministers of every denomination, at a large meeting held for the purpose of rousing public action against betting and gambling. On that occasion the Bishop moved a resolution pledging the members of the meeting to use their personal influence to discourage betting and gambling, which was seconded by Father O Brien, a Catholic priest, and carried unanimously. s—... ~ -jt'. t