Article September 19, 1925 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Nellie Melba, A. Preston Gray, C. A. Eaton

[Dame Nellie Melba, in the Hempstead and St. John's Wood Advertiser. London, England]

My father did not succeed through any stroke of luck. ... He succeeded because he had a character as stanch as steel, because he had a vision as bright as the clean Australian sunshine which shines through my window as I write. But more than that, he had a religion; and it was his religion which colored everything he did. I do not wish to appear Puritanical, but I must register my conviction that you cannot build a great Empire without a great religion. ... It will be a sorry day for our Empire when this religious spirit dies out; for even on the lowest sphere, the sphere of economics, you will find, if you examine it, that it has done more for the Empire than any mere business instinct. ... When my father made his first bricks he was putting something more into them than clay and water. He was making them with the memory of his mother's words, "Build honestly, build truthfully, and you will build well."

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