THE FAMILY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 4

THE FAMILY

"No one ih a family ean for a moment suppdse that be works for VirmKP.lf alone or is 'independent'j at the same time his individuality grows stronger by service. He feels from the first that he Wes far more than he gives, that his gif t is as little compared to his inheritapce and traihing, yet that little is nfeeded, and to withhold it woiild be ungrateful and unnatural," wtites Mr C. F. Andrews in his nfew book, "Christ and Human Need." "Thus, in a true family, the individual gift is cherished, while the common life is preservSd. The un^ty rests not on simiiarity, but difierence of funotion. Authority, obedience, partnership, will be unselfish, and not self-centred in pppQrfcion as they reaoh the family ideal. "The influenee of the home ideal is even mpre clearly seen in connection with the thought of enviroment. The causes of lack of employment, the existence of a submerged tehth, the improvidenoe and intemperance among the poor, are all conneeted in some way with the influenee of environment. "Some have rnshed to the conclusion that environment is the cause of everythingj others assert that it is the cauSe of nothing, quoting as there watohword, 'Man makes the environment, environment does not mSke the man.' 6ht those positions lead to a dualism. The first is instinctively felt to be wrohg; the second has great attractiveness, hut unless more fully stated, tends to a marking off of special fields of iiuman interest as 'secular,' instead of treating life as a whole as cssentially spiritual"