Literature Reflects Mood Of Frustration

Chronicle (Levin), 5 July 1949, Page 4

Literature Reflects Mood Of Frustration

a consiaer^o.e 8mqU4lj 01 liferature of ' our time refleets a ipood. of frustratiqn, and this is a very . signiflcant fact," said* "Rev. A. Salmond, preaching in St. Andrew?s Pfesbyterian' Church, Levin, yesterday. " "A sense pf being' frustrated in life leads "individuals; communities and nations into irrational actionSj which olteh'merely iiftehsify the sense of frustration. "The frpsfrpfp.d moqd piay arise from vanous" causes— w'ork that dpes not satisfy, expectptions that are n'ever "reajised "of." if thpV? ajfp realised," prove mucli "less satisfyipg than imaginatioh ' pictured ' them, p'owerfu! instincfs thwarted and Unfulfif |ed ' or ' f ulfi||ed * ' witjiqpt dispipiinp. The§e pah?a}rin8;.ke"mep ; •fee'1 tlie sense -of frustratidri'. Hvpp'iness can prove a flower that blooms for.a.short season, and life can\W- bripped^b" eafeily !by "Mh'ess o'r shadowed by sorrow. ; "The Christiah fpsfktence is that a world where the "sense of eternal * values is missed or ignored is a world which ineyjtably produces frustration. A wor'd which nresents' .to the Iquiijari heart nothing beyond its owh" good""things is a WoFd that finally disp,ppqihfs the buman heart. ' " A great RusSiap thin^pr had dePlare'd : "The 1 man who bows down to nothiner- cannqt heau the burden qf himself?' ' " Jesus had led thqusands of men ' arid ^ women 'oqf- pf "tfip mo'rass of frustration into a life of courage, service and self sacriiice, conclude'd fhe preacher." In bbedience'to Him life fquu4 f]i|fi^rpent. *