46 THE president's address. 



Archdeacon Cornish, proposing a vote of thanks to the 

 president, said they always wondered at the extreme celerity 

 with which Mr. Baring-G-ould could prepare the most learned 

 papers, and the extreme lightness with which he could use the 

 great learning he possessed. As he had told them, Cornish history 

 was not to be found in text, but must be sought in Irish, Welsh, 

 and Breton sources and authorities. That must leave a great 

 deal to the person who sought it, and a great deal of licence- 

 must rest upon anyone describing it. They must put their own 

 colour and interpretation upon it. Though he might not be able 

 to agree with all the president had said, they were all thankful 

 for the address. He would rather judge of the saints by the result 

 of the work they did, than by the legends which related to them. 

 Legends grew and acquired new colour as they passed from hand 

 to hand, but when they looked back and saw the wonderful work 

 that had sprung from the lives of those men, they could only 

 thank God for such lives. It was true that a great deal of their 

 proceedings might be regarded as restlessness, but if they looked 

 deeper they saw it was only the restlessness of St. Paul, and the 

 restlessness of all missionary work. They thanked God that 

 there lived in the old days those great men, the fruits of whose 

 labours they were now almost unconsciously entering upon. 



Sir Edwin Durnino-Lawrenoe, Bart., M.P., seconded the 

 resolution, remarking that if the old days were not altogether 

 happy times, they must remember the people lived in the midst of 

 great barbarism. He had himself tried to study ancient literature, 

 and tried most to learn from what writers did not tell him —to read 

 between the lines. The thought occurred to him, in reference to 

 the great restlessness of the saints in founding great educa- 

 tional institutions over large areas, that all present were very 

 near a great educational building (the County Technical Schools) 

 founded by a man who was not yet styled a saint, but who had 

 built these great establishments in many parts of the country 

 (applause). He did not think they realised sometimes how great 

 might be the uses of those buildings, which in some measure 

 took the place of the ancient institutions of which they had 

 heard. He did not think religion or education would become less, 

 but education was different, and in some respects it was a different 

 religion to-day from the early Christianity of which they had 



