NEED FOR FAITH.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 4

NEED FOR FAITH.

"The one thing eertsin is that on the slope on whioh we find ourselves ws cannot stand #till. We may attempt to retreat into pluto craoy. There are aymptoms that something of the sort is bfing considered to-day, but I very much doubt if that i* a possible path either, No group of people oan for long continue to work pursly for proflt, a aystsm in whiQh they no longer believe; and that ia almost as trus, b* it remembered, of those whom it beneflts as of thoss whom it does not. It is not enpugh that a system pays you indivjdually, you must be abls to believe that it is right. And althongh it is trne that tbe fa°t that a system pays you goes a very long way toward helping you to believe that it is right, it does not go the whole way. History has proved that over apd over again. To loge faith is to }oss power. The human animal, as was pointed out eloss on two thousands years ago, cannot live without ideala. That is a plain faot, uot a question of whai man ought or ought not to do, but of what h» oan or cannot do, . He musfc have gods— - and he must believe in them. He is, as Capon Raven recently remarked, a worshipping animaJ.'WLady Rhondda, in " Time and Tid» "