PUBLIC OPINION
INDIA MISSIONS IN THE COMMONS. Mr D! G. Somerville asked recently the Secretary of State for India whether, among the safeguards which will be insisted on by the British Government in any negotiations with the Indian Nationalists, there will be included the fullest possible proteet on for the freedom of missionary work in India ?
Mr Benn: This is an important matter which will doubtless be considered in the resumed discussions. Mr Somerville: Do I understand tint definite protection will be insisted upon?
Mr Bonn: I enn muko.no statement of Government policy at this juncture beyopci whfit I have already said, In reply to a second question, Mr Benn said : ‘ ! I have seen the Press reports. I think there is a good deal o.f confusion of thought.”
THE NEW PURITANISM, What we need to-day is a new Puri- ■ tan movement, an adjustment to the material resources of life which shall keep them the servants and man tbe j master in his own house. But it must 1 be a Puritanism that shall avoid the dangers of the Restoration period, the Puritanism of John Milton and Colonel Hutchison rather than of the more negative type which provoked the caricatures and reaction of that later time. I do not want to see us multiplying j the “Thou shalt not’s of life, banning I the drama or the pictures, or discoun- ! teuancing the recreational activities, either physicial or mental and social, that are clustered round our churches. We need to gather under the hallowing sanction of religion the whole of the legitimate expressions of healthy life. The alternative to the materialistic view of life so dominant to-day is not a narrowly religious one but a finely cultural one, the development of human personality in all its powers of enjoyment, understanding, and character, —The Rev. W, Carter of Streatham, one of the best known English Congregational ministers NIGHTINGALE NOTES
‘•‘There js scarcely anything that interferes so much with respect for us as any want of simplicity in ourselves. If we think only of the duty we have in hand we may hope to make others think of it. But if we are fidgety and worry about trifles, can we hope to impress them with the importance of essentia) things? ‘lt is charity to nurse sick bodies- well; it is greater ’charity to nurse well sick minds and tiresome sufferers. Be earnest in work, be earnest, also, even in such things as taking a holiday, for there should be something of seriousness in keeping our bodies too, up to the mark. Cleanliness is the only real disinfectant—the least carelessness in these things, Which every nurse may lie careful or careless in, may cost P. life.’ ’’—From the sayings of Florence Nightingale, in the “Red Cross Magazine,”
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