Constellation of Light

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1942, Page 2

Constellation of Light

light upon our way. — The Mayor of New York city, Mr. La Guardia, in a suggestive sermon addressed to the American churches.

Democracy and religion can together build the good society. Beyond the darkness of this present conflict lie the days when men will rebuild the world. Even greater than the need of this hour will be the need of that. Great events will need all the vision and courage of the best men to mould them. so that every one of us will have to be greater than he has ever been. Even in these devastating hours we must prepare ourselves to be adequate for that beckoning way. Here with all our errors we have demonstrated that people coming from all nations and creeds can live together in peace and build a strong fellowship of men. We have had no place here for racial intolerance or religious bigotry. We have demonstrated that freedom for all can work. Thomas Jefferson declared in his first jnaugural: "Freedom of religion, freedom of the Press, freedom of persons under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation." That constellation is still to us a