OATH WANTED

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 March 1917, Page 3

OATH WANTED

WANTED —Oath. Owing to exigencies, evolution, higher criticism, and other innovations, there is urgent need for a solemn oath that will command universal respect and be considered binding. During the history of the raoe, man has sworn by everything he could think of at one time or another ; by his haldioom, by his honour, by his ancestors, and so on, always picking something that he reverenced at the time and considering himself forsworn so long as his reverence lasted. But, alas, reverence, like other sentiments, is shifty, and the truth is hard to tell when, a lie heater, suits qne's interests, arjd sq i\ has been, continually necessary to invent new and more aweinspiring oaths, We now seem to have run the entire gamut qf past, present ai\d future, leaving nothing that a man can swear by with any great assurance that he will respect his oath. This need must be supplied before we can proceed.