Value of Jubilees

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7282, 9 October 1933, Page 2

Value of Jubilees

SPECIAL INTEREST FOR THE AGED Different kinds of jubilees were referred to by Archbishop Julius at tho celebration, a few days ago, of tho jubilee of St. Barnabas’ Church at Fendalton, Christchurch. There were many kinds of jubilees—some good, some bad, and some indifferent. Jubilees of this kind had a special interest for old people, said the Archbishop. Probably there were gathered in the church old folk whose memories of the early days were refreshed as they worshipped once more on the old site. Thackeray had remarked that the old people travelled through life with their backs to tho horses, looking on iho road over which they had come in the past, and probably there would be many there that, day looking backover their roads through life. Was not that looking back one of the great preservatives against the tyranny of tho present, asked Archbishop Julius. The present was indeed ‘tyrannous, since it claimed an importance in their minds out of all proportion to its real value. They thought they knew all about it because it lay before their eyes. Its joys seemed keener and its sorrows deeper. They said that there had never been such a time as the present and forgot that, almost of necessity, there was an atmosphere of exaggeration over the present. In tho past there had been joys and sorrows, too, and so their memories of them helped thorn to withstand the troubles and pleasures of tho present.