SONG OF HATE
TO THE EDITOR
Sir. —One reads with horror and disgust the suggestion by Sir Ernest Davies that he hates the enemy so strongly that he would desire someone to compose a song of hate. Surely we have come to a sufficient understanding spiritually to know that to retaliate with such weapons as hatred only engenders fear and mistrust, which blight, cripple and kill. If we have not, it is time we had. It is one of the laws of life that hatred and suspicion engender fear and strife and war. which are always self-destructive. Think of the hundreds of thousands of all nations who have been afflicted with suffering, desolation and destruction. Surely our Christian knowledge would teach us that love is the fulfilling of the law of life, that man reaps what he sows. Cannot we come to know that love is the basic law of all sane and satisfactory life, that love is stronger than hate?—l am. etc., G. Brooks. Dunedin, October 1.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 4
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168SONG OF HATE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24420, 4 October 1940, Page 4
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