AUTHORITIES WHO ARE NOT AUTHORITIES.
“The curious thing about our generation is the kind of authority we choose and the kind of authority we reject, especially in religion. Some young people treat the authority of the New Testament • very cavalierly, but defer in the most abject fashion to the opinions of Mr G. Bernard Shaw. They will tell you, with a touch of bravado, that they absolutely repudiate the authority of St. Paul, and in the next breath they will quote with genuine reverence some utterance about religion by Mr H. G. Wells. Our newspapers will publish series of articles on any religious question that may be to the fore, and half the articles will probably be written by people like Mr Hugh Walpole and Miss Rebecca West. What a singular choice of authorities! It would he extremely funny if the issues were not so serious. Why in the world should popular novelists or dramatists or journalists be accepted ns authorities upon religion ?”—The Rev. Henry Belt, M.A., in the “Methodist Magazine.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 2
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172AUTHORITIES WHO ARE NOT AUTHORITIES. Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1930, Page 2
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