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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1994, 1 February 1907, Page 1

realised that unless some system was dovised to prevent values of land for settlement being forced too high, it would react upon the community as a whole. This was a matter which the large landholders required to consider carefully, for it was to tlio land, and the land alone, that the country had to look for its greatest and most material prosperity. (Applause.) Therefore, any measure brought in by the Government which was calculated to increase settlement on the land should receive the support of all, and tlioso who held largo estates for tlio moment should not say anything against such measures, as they were calculated to benefit the whole colony. If they could not get this sixteen millions increase in the products of the land, thero would bo a decrease in the employment, dislocation of business, distress, and even a crisis if wo had not our magnificent everlasting asset in the shape of land. They produced, directly or indirectly, everything that we required, and had a great deal more to do with the life of the man who does not own an acre of land than ho is probably aware of. They could go back over pages of history, and would find that land troubles commenced the day a white man and white woman, or*a black man aiid .a black woman was 21 years of ago, and began to realise what the potontialtios of land were, and had been carried right through the ages. The occupancy of land had been a continuous trouble. They had to put before the people in concreto form a proposal to try and arrive at a reasonable solution of wliat was a complex problem. He believed that by following out the Native land system for which the ltoyal Commission had been appointed, and by applying common sense to it; to protect the assets of land and estates owned by the Crown, it would effect a solution of what others in the past had triedto solve without success. ENDOWMENTS AND THE LAND BILL.

During the next session of Parliament the Government would submit four proposals, and the House would be asked to assist in putting those proposals through. First there would be tlie land bill, and he thought the system of endowments would require to bo separated and embodied in another bill, so that the mature judgment of the House may be offered without having the difficulties of land transactions cropping up as it does in the land', hill. If they expected this country with a growing amount of nearly £1,000,000 for education purposes; £400,000 for old age, and over £200,000 for charitable aid could allow this enormous increase to go on without some feeder to create a fund by which it could be maintained, they were making a great mistake unless the population could become doubled . If they wanted to have them conserved and preserved they must apply common sense to the system of endowments that wouldget a revenue that in bad times, if they should come, they could manage to carry on the great social undertakings' that the people of this countrv would have in the interests of themselves and their families. For that reason, instead of attempting to set aside the proposal of the Government for land endowment, the country ought to support them, so that the House could apply its mature judgment upon that proposal By doing that they could give a clear exposition of the land bill and land endowments. While not disturbing the principle of what they were urging it would enable Parliament to arrive at a better judgment and enable the Government to put it in the Statute book. In addition it would bring down legislation on the lines laid down by the Commission.

THE NEW THEOLOGY. Rev. R. J. Campbell’s (City Temple, London) recent address boforo a meeting of Congregational ministers, in- which he outlined his theological views, has brought down upon him an avalanche of hostile criticism. He has now replied in a sermon _ which is described as “a fiery philippic.” Dealing with the re-statement of Christian truth to the age, in the course of a sermon on the challenge by the Pharisees of Christ’s authority, ho said- “ There has risen to-day from every part of the intellectual horizon a new vision, a wider view of the meaning of tho Christian revelation. You may recognise it in the breaking away from outworn intellectual forms of religious belief called the venerable creeds. What is the message that is being thus declared ? Briefly outlined it is: The essential divinity of man; his unbroken oneness with God; the salvability of the race as a whole, and not merely of an individual here and there; the unity of all life, the hither and the yonder, this side and the further side of the change called death; the Divine appointment of the struggle and the pain which-are the necessary conditions of the manifestation of the essential nature of Eternal Love; the identity of Divine justice, mercy, righteousness, love, truth—those ought never to have been separated the one from the other, for they never have been sepal ated in the being of God; the home-gathering of mankind to that Eternal Heart whence it came, a process in which every saviour of the race shall willingly labor and suffer, until all selfishness has been destroyed, and every sinner has become a Christ. Than is the word of God for to-day, and that is eternal truth. 1 believe it to be the real Gospel of Jesus, declared in Hjs noble life and self-sacrificing death. If it had never been inscribed on the pages of Holy Writ, I could still read it in the consecrated lives of tho followers of Jesus, all tho centuries through. I call it self-evident, because no true nikn can see it and reject it. It commands intellect, conscience, and heart. But it may bo obscured.” • ' Mr to lash liis critics.ip "'very ' vigorous language, j especially' those whom he called “the host of cowards and timeservers within tho churches themselves,” and declared that it was just as hopeless to destroy, an “unpopular doctrine” as it was.lor King Canute to keep back the waves.

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