FOUR BASIC AIMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 3

FOUR BASIC AIMS.

"THE LAW OF LOVE."

SERMON BY MR. NASH.

CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

"For the assertion of truth, the un veiling of illusion, the dissipation of hate, and the influencing of men's hearts and minds," the motto of an English newsletter, was the. text used by the Hon. W. Xash in a sermon in Holy Trinity Church, Avouside. Mr. Xash said that there could be no progress in opposition to these principles; but something more was needed —the law of love. To obey this involved a complete surrsncier of personality to the benefit of all others, and this was no mere physical act, it was an uninterrupted activity of sacrifice or "eanctifvinsr."

"The growth of this principle is detenu med by our spontaneous responses to the momentary constructive urges, exemplified by Christ. There was a man with whom I came into contact in my life who always responded to the constructive urges immediately; people called upon him to do things and straight away he was into the job, without knowing that lie was following in the path of Christ.

"This, what you may call 'essence of love,' is, I am afraid, often cruelly lacking in social and political reformers. It has to be built-in in the individual from the start. Even the most beautiful environment cannot produce results unless recognition of this law of love is built-in in the individual."

The.Minister said that the greatest impulse to good in men we a the knowledge that truth is impregnable and unconquerable. "Maybe when we get a touch of the 'flu we get depressed and wonder 'is it worth while?', but we realise that next morning, or the morning after, things will look different, and we always know that only truth can win. That faith will always bring us out of depression and give us strength to go forward again." Mr. Nγ sh said he had seen crooked men appear to succeed, but thougn they acquired wealth and received "honours," their personalities did not progress. It was hard to say of the four principles in the newsletter should come first, he said, hut whichever cams first, all four resolved themselves in the teachings of Christ.