“LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR”
It is very many years since it was laid down as the second commandment of God to man that he should love his neighbour as himself, writes Mrs Grace Stuart, in her book, “The Achievement of Personality.” I am not sure, she adds, that that has not now become the first commandment. In a world given over to the folly and sin of the preparation and practice of the modern methods of killing the bodies of our -neighbours, I can imagine that God may say that we cannot love Him at all—that indeed He does not want our love —until we learn to love our neighbour, not perhaps very much, but with at least a small fraction of the love which we habitually give to ourselves. So that, in saying we must love our neighbour, psychology says nothing new. In telling us why we have found if so difficult, and how we may do it 'better, it is my belief that it gives us a new knowledge which is indeed a “good news,” and that it points the way through and beyond these terrible death struggles of our old individualisms, to a love of man for man such as the world has not yet known.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 4
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