GREATER WORLD SPIRITUAL CHURCH

Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 4

GREATER WORLD SPIRITUAL CHURCH

Mrs G. Brooks presided at the service on Sunday, at which the speaker was Mrs S. Townend and the subject ‘ Our Heritage.’ She introduced her subject by referring to the apparently irreconcilable clash between the world of Nature and the world of man, particularly at this time, when spring was awakening the impulse to live and beautify and construct, while in the

went on to speak of our heritage under the three headings of natural, cultural, and social, giving examples of great beauty and inspirational value from Nature, and then from man’s gifts of art, music, and literature. In the social heritage she included all those constructive works like roads, bridges, and railways, which help to make a country habitable and progressive, and all those inventions which have helped to lighten human toil and give mankind the ‘benefit of the groat findings of science. All this wealth should constitute a social 'birthright, inherited by every person on birth, but unhappily s sibj

midst of a great industrial city waa robbed even of God's gift of healthgiving sunlight owing to the smoke and soot-laden atmosphere. The social heritage, moreover, usually represented a liability rather than an asset to a community. In the last analysis it had to be admitted that money determined the extent to which the heritage was enjoyed by any one individual. The speaker felt that the key to peace in world affairs lay in freeing our heritage for the enjoyment and use of all indiscriminately of any qualification of land, labour, or capital, and that those who now had access to it in part should