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82 A L B E R T A W O M E N ' S I N S T I T U T ES
CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP
Synopsis of Address by Rt. Rev. L. Ralph Sherman, Bishop of Calgary.
There never can be a visible Canadian citizenship, until ordinary people
feel that the responsibility devolves upon them individually. Nothing in the
world can matter apart from people and personalities, and until every adult
human being decides that the virility of the country is mosc important,
nothing great can be done.
Are we thinking in the right kind of terms of human worth, of personality,
character and major human effort? It is an eternal truth expressed in
God's word: " Who knoweth whether thou art not come to play a great
part in God's kingdom, at such a time as this?"
B i r t h is not the only count in citizenship: all who live in a country should
feel their duties toward that country. In the Canadian West there often
appears a person who is always harking back to " the good old days" of
another country, yet in the meantime taking all that Canada offers.
Canadian citizenship should not be blatantly or exclusively Canadian, but
something a part of a greater whole— an allegiance to one King, one Flag,
one Empire.
Because of the geographic conditions in Canada, one great problem is to
build up a national public opinion, a national conscientious, a central unity,
b i g enough to include all differences of birth, religion, language, wealth, etc.
It is a long east and west line in our country, with little north or south.
Many natural barriers obstruct unit}'. There is no great centre. Take the
isolation of the Maritime Provinces, their civilization, intensely patriotic and
steeped in tradition. Quebec again is vastly different but one of the most
progressive Provinces of Canada. Ontario, too, has its own civilization—
then come the three great Prairie Provinces with different industries and
problems; and lastly B r i t i s h Columbia, shut off by a range of mountains.
The working out of Canada's destiny, the building up of something big
enough to include all these great differences is a work for the Women's Institutes.
They should refuse to throw their strength into anything that would
seek to make a cleavage between race and rare or religion and religion. U n i ty
does not come by agreement, but agreement conies from unity. Let all forces
and clubs combine toward a common unity.
We live in a machine- driven commercial age. We are the victims of
programmes and propaganda, typewriter and other machines. We must
guard against the materialism that is the outcome of this. We should, one
and all. work for a higher type of citizenship, and strive to build up in
thought, word and deed, through our homes, schools, churches, and organizations,
a higher type of citizenship, true to the noblest spiritual ideals.
Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 1930 - Annual Convention Report |
| Subject | Convention;Report; AWI |
| Description | Report of the Sixteenth Annual Convention held May 20-23, 1930 |
| Language | en |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Type | text |
| Source | Alberta Women's Institutes |
| Identifier | awi0811099 |
| Date | 1930 |
| Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
| Repository | AU Digital Library |
| Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
Description
| Title | Page 80 |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | AWI Collection |
| Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
| Repository | AU Digital Library |
| Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
| Transcript | 82 A L B E R T A W O M E N ' S I N S T I T U T ES CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP Synopsis of Address by Rt. Rev. L. Ralph Sherman, Bishop of Calgary. There never can be a visible Canadian citizenship, until ordinary people feel that the responsibility devolves upon them individually. Nothing in the world can matter apart from people and personalities, and until every adult human being decides that the virility of the country is mosc important, nothing great can be done. Are we thinking in the right kind of terms of human worth, of personality, character and major human effort? It is an eternal truth expressed in God's word: " Who knoweth whether thou art not come to play a great part in God's kingdom, at such a time as this?" B i r t h is not the only count in citizenship: all who live in a country should feel their duties toward that country. In the Canadian West there often appears a person who is always harking back to " the good old days" of another country, yet in the meantime taking all that Canada offers. Canadian citizenship should not be blatantly or exclusively Canadian, but something a part of a greater whole— an allegiance to one King, one Flag, one Empire. Because of the geographic conditions in Canada, one great problem is to build up a national public opinion, a national conscientious, a central unity, b i g enough to include all differences of birth, religion, language, wealth, etc. It is a long east and west line in our country, with little north or south. Many natural barriers obstruct unit}'. There is no great centre. Take the isolation of the Maritime Provinces, their civilization, intensely patriotic and steeped in tradition. Quebec again is vastly different but one of the most progressive Provinces of Canada. Ontario, too, has its own civilization— then come the three great Prairie Provinces with different industries and problems; and lastly B r i t i s h Columbia, shut off by a range of mountains. The working out of Canada's destiny, the building up of something big enough to include all these great differences is a work for the Women's Institutes. They should refuse to throw their strength into anything that would seek to make a cleavage between race and rare or religion and religion. U n i ty does not come by agreement, but agreement conies from unity. Let all forces and clubs combine toward a common unity. We live in a machine- driven commercial age. We are the victims of programmes and propaganda, typewriter and other machines. We must guard against the materialism that is the outcome of this. We should, one and all. work for a higher type of citizenship, and strive to build up in thought, word and deed, through our homes, schools, churches, and organizations, a higher type of citizenship, true to the noblest spiritual ideals. |
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