HISTORY’S CAUSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 7

HISTORY’S CAUSE

WHAT ULTIMATELY MATTERS. What 1 ultimately determines the course of history is what is moving under the surface of men’s minds and hearts, writes the Rev. Thompson Elliott. Canon of Westminster, in the “Listener.” That is the story of all the great reforms of human society, of civil and moral and religious process. Ideas have taken root in the souls of a few, have germinated and spread, not without cost, not without tears and. sacrifice, not without sweat of blood. Our heritage of thought, of invention, of discovery, of liberty, of moral and spiritual achievement —these intangible things are a far more precious inheritance than anything material which has come down to us. Sometimes there has been an eclipse of aspirations and ideals, but the revival has come, and the spirit of man has reasserted itself. That is our hope for the future in a iong view; and it is an invisible future, only lo be seen by the eye of faith. It is faith and courage that the world needs today: Faith to believe that the Holy Spirit of God can so move the hearts of men that there will be a deep change in our habits of thought: and courage to hold fast and work and pray that the way may be prepared for tfm Spirit's coming again into our weary world.