AN UNRELISED AGENCY

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1928, Page 8

AN UNRELISED AGENCY

“ft is good for Anglo-American understanding that the best work <vl religions thinkers beyond the Atlantic should be made as available lor Hritis i readers as British theology is over there. In the circle of international tvlai ions t lu‘ coiil usioii is wops*. l t’oii - lomuU'd si im I psissos into lledhun. Every people, race, creed, nation, police is beard clamouring for justice, defence security, compensation, reparation. the right to annex, the right to expand, the right to adjust boundaries 11,,. Hglii to levy discriminating tarills. I|k> right to lake a recalcitrant, debtor by the I lima l and cry, ‘ Pny me that t.iiou owest !’ And ns we think of all this welter anil tangle and snarling hateful confusion of human affairs this Gordian knot into which the world lias managed to tie itself up. over it all sounds le clear and sweet reasonableness of Jesus saying to me, ‘Ereely ye Imve received, freely give.’ \Yc have hecn thinking 100- much about what is owing to them, too little about wlial tlicv owe not. enough about what they are privileged to give . . . too little of duties.” Dr Howard Bobbins. Dean of New York.