THE FLASHING STREAM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 December 1938, Page 10

THE FLASHING STREAM

FAITH OF THE PURE IN HEART. Many are persuaded by despair that against the violence of the contemporary world there is no remedy but to escape or to destroy, writes Mr Charles Morgan in the introduction to his new play, “The Flashing Stream.” But there is another remedy within the reach of all —of a woman at her cradle, of a man of science at his instruments, of a seaman at his wheel, or a ploughman at his furrow, of young and old when they love and when they worship —the remedy of a single mind, active, passionate and steadfast, which has upheld the spirit of man through many tyrannies and shall uphold it still. This singleness of mind, called by Jesus purity of heart, the genius of love, of science and of faith, resembles, in the confused landscape of experience, a flashing stream, “fierce and unswerving as the zeal of saints,” to which the few who see it commit themselves absolutely. They are called “fanatics,” and indeed they are not easily patient of those who would turn them aside; but, amid the confusions 'of policy, the adventure of being map j and woman is continued in them.