SERMON BY MR NASH

Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 6

SERMON BY MR NASH

FOUR SASIC AIMS " THE LAW OF LOK " “ For the assertion of truth, the unveiling of illusion, the dissipation of hate, and the influencing of mens hearts and minds,” the motto of an English newsletter was the text used by the Hon. W. Nash in a sermon in Holy Trinity Church, Avonside, last evening says the Christchurch said that there could be no progress in opposition to these principles : hut something more was needed —the law of love. To obey this involved a complete surrender of personality to the benefit of all others, and this was no mere physical act, it was an uninterrupted activity of sacrifice or “ sanctifying.” . . . . , “ The growth of this principle is determined 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 on him to do things and straight away be was into the job, without knowing that he was following in the path of Christ. “ This, what you may call essence of love,’ is, 1 am afraid, often cruelly lacking in social and political reformers. It as 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 was 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 ns out of depression and give us strength to go forward again.” Mr Nash said he had seen crooked men appear to succeed, but though they acquired wealth and received honours their personalities did not progress. It was hard to say which of the four principles in the newsletter should come first, ho said, but whichever came first all four resolved themselves in the teachings of Christ.