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In June 1914, a boy, not yet 15 years-old, made a promise to God. To make it binding he wrote it down while alone in a class-room at school. That promise brought him a life-time of adventure. He served as a signaller in the mud of France in the First World War; as an Anglican priest among the stricken poor of northern England; as a bishop in the wilds of Papua New Guinea; and as an archbishop among the economically secure of Brisbane. This is the intriguing and fascinating story of Philip Nigel Warrington Strong and the promise he made as a boy, and the motto that sustained him and the road less travelled that beckoned and chose him.
Report and speeches at the [third] annual meeting of the Church Pastoral-aid Society, May 8, 1838.
Australian historical memory should not forget Mathew Blagden Hale, whose generosity of spirit and openness to the needs of all classes of people earned him the title of ‘the good bishop’.