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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1938, Page 2

The pessimist could find grave cause for his despair as to the trend of society today, writes Mr Arthur Field Gilmore in the “Christian Science Monitor.” Poignantly he could inquire, Whither are we going? And he would find substantial proof of his conclusions that civilisation is on the brink. Yet such conclusion would entirely ignore the great fact, as the poet put it long ago, that “there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” Among all the turmoil of the day there is, manifestly, an awakening to the fact that something must be done to motivate in the lives of nations, as in the lives of individuals, the Christ spirit, the desire to be of service to the sisterhood of nations. Isolation, however “splendid,” is negative and selfish. Prosperity thus gained but tends to arouse the enmity of the less favoured peoples, those suffering from the assaults of hate and greed. Its effect is to antagonise and separate; while the great need is to unify and conciliate.