Gisborne and God Interpretation of the “Other”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 13

Gisborne and God Interpretation of the “Other”

THIS is the last of these series of articles on the nature of God. We have seen how absolutely necessary it is for man to believe in some kind of “Other” and how the "Other” is capable of interpretation in terms of spirit. This feeling for the “Other” is . such a vital part of our life that it

cannot be ignored hence the title Gisborne and God, for each person in Gisborne is ait'ccted. If, as we have seen, no one can live without some conception of “Other,” we must realise that “no one” includes the person you meet in Gladstone road, in the pictures, the post ollice, or the person you see in your mirror each morning.

It. would seem, that if we are really to live a full life that we must be in the closest contact with the “Other”; that we must sink our personality into it or rather Him; that our lives may be lived, not according to our own ideas, conditioned as they are bv environment, education, and tire rest, but according to the

Now we all agree by this, that the object of our veneration and esteem must have a conception of human life infinitely higher than our own, of which we. can be aware and to which we can aspire by observing the right conditions, that this conception of life must first of all have been made known to us in the only way in which wc could have comprehended, through a human life by which this high conception could have been maintained, and further, that this human life must have been in tire closest possible touch with the “Other” in order to have maintained the standard. We cannot pursue this further here, space is limited and we must ask ourselves how this affects the people of Gisborne.

Contributed by the Ministers’ Association

ideal of “will" of the “Other.” A will based upon laws which cannot be broken. Thus it will be seen, that although we have our own individual fancies, our likes and dislikes, these are, of necessity, merely superficial, and that there is a strong, eternal foundation to life. Full Explanation A note of music has its own peculiar characteristic, but apart from the composition it has no meaning; ii docs, however, have this in common with other notes, or musical sounds, that its vibrations are such as to produce a regular, rythmic beat by which it is made available for incorporation into a symphony or other compositions. But—no musical sound canid be produced at all without the medium of air.

Striving- for the Same Thing

You are striving after "Other” and so am I putting all smaller issues at one side, you are striving for that, which for the sake of argument we will call perfection, so it looks as if you and I arc striving after the same thing. Physically, wc are made of the same stuff and fundamentally, right at the very core, we are the same spirit. As one body may be fit and healthy by a right perception and use of the things which benefit and another may be warped and ugly by a misuse oi' the same things, similarly it may be so with the spirit within us.

For a full explanation, for clearer and infinitely more simple than these rather involved articles, we would refer readers to the Gospel of St. John in the New Testament. There the true explanation of the “Other” is to be found, an explanation which should be acceptable to all who really want to know. And there we must leave you with a prayer for a blessing on your reading.