THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 6

THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Comments—Reflections Intercession.

0 ppd, strengthen, we pray Thee, 'all who are striving after true brotherhood and are working for righteousness and peace. Guide the hearts and minds of rulers and statesmen, that they may seek first Thy Kingdom and the establishment of justice and freedom for all peoples; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Take time in time ere time be lost.— Proverb.

“My contention is the the quality which enables a people to govern themselves is not the instinct of men to insist on their own interests, but the instinct, weak in some, stronger in others, which enables them to put the public interest before their own. Can we do better than liken the relationship of the individuals in uh indeal community to that between the members of z a well-trained orchestra? Each player is given his part, but it is not designed as a solo. If each one thinks of his part as a solo the orchestra will be a failure, there will be no wholeness or cohesion about it."—Margaret M. Harvey, in the Swarthmore Lecture, “The Law of Liberty.”

“We ask no favours'from the enemy; we seek from them no compunction, , . The people of London would say to Hitler with one voice; ‘You have committed every crime under the sun. Where you have been least resisted you have been the most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing of Warsaw In the very first few days of the war, We remember Rotterdam. We have been duly reminded of your habits by the hideous massacres .in Belgrade, We. know too well the bestial assault you are making upon the Russian people. . . . Wo will have no truce or parley with you or the grisly gang who work your wicked will, You do your worst and we will do our best. Perhaps it may be our turn soon. Perhaps it may be our turn now.’ Mr. Churchill,

“Nazism, fascism, militarism, the growing elements of dictatorship in the democracies—-are all endeavours to got some kind of order out of chops . • Either we are going to have enough people'who discipline themselves from within, or else we are going to have discipline imposed on us from without

...Nothing left loose ever does anything creative. No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it Is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunnelled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what, we say we want to be and our ’willingness to discipline ourselves to get there. And the cost in every realm is always self-discipline,”—Rev, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor, Riverside Baplst •Church, New York. .

“Love is the only enduring power, the one faith that moves mountains, the dynamic through which all civilization in .the true sense, all social improvement; all genuine refonm, all serenity, all security, all creativeness springs. Hatred, fotce and violence may appear to have brought many revolutionary results, but the lesson of history demonstrates the purely temporary nature of these results'. The man of power, of action, appears to achieve more than the man of wisdom, but it is the man of wisdom who permanently changes the course of human life. Only the power of the mind, and the spirit underlying mind, finally influences human development, not the sensational revolutionary acts of the man of temporal power, although it is true that he may temporarily affect the course of events. But eventually be is left with no more than a ghostly existence between the pages of a history-book; while the saint, the sage, the propncl, the poet, live eternally. In no danger of death, fertilizing, men’s minds and perpetually creating new life,”—.Miss Dallas Kenmare, in her book, “The Philosophy of Love.”

“It is a matter for observation that apparently those in Germany, who certainly do not wish to serve the interests of this country, think it a most desirable tiling to remove our bombers from German territory,” said Viscount Simon, the Lord Chancellor, in the House of Lords. “Here is something which was said on June 17;— ‘lt looks once again us if our convoys were not given sufficient air support. Meanwhile the major weight of the R. A. F.’s strength is being kept at home for use in bombing Germany, and the military value of such operations cannot compare with that of the battle in Libya and in the Mediterranean. Yet our men have often had cause to coinplain in the past that the R.A.F, were never where' they were most needed. When they are urgently required in decisive battles, Churchill dissipates the R.A.F, for bombing the Continent, He reserves them for making propaganda.’ The House may be interested to know where that passage—and I have others of tlie snine sort—comes from. It comes from the German broaden sting station pouring in the English language into this country propngnndn by menus of which they hope to remove tlie pressure of our heavy' bombers from German towns,”

When Pence Returns. “When Lramitill diiyn t'olurii will |

letiieinber The reassui'iiucd of this calm, bright

wen (her: When (lunger mid uneerlalnfy are done Will I forget the road Hint brought

u.s I 111 tlier.’ Will I remember how my heart bled dully. Pierced with the shall of human suffering Or will I blithely, gaily He done with justice mid each kindred thing? When tranquil days return will I still cherish A new-found faith with fervent

constancy ' Or seek again 'lie roads whereon-men pcri'-h, Wra ••(•(! in a Im rd. liriylii selfsufficiency ' ■—Una W. 11-irseii, in the “Churchman ”