MAN’S WARFARE
PRESENTATION OF HISTORY. History properly appreciated has a profound importance for mankind; of that we are all nowadays convinced, writes Canon Charles E. Raven, in pleading for a truer presentation of history. It supplies, if we use it rightly, the data by which individuals and society can interpret their experience, understand their past and estimate their future. It reveals, to the believer, the ways of God with His children. As such its study should not be determined by the personal preferences and prejudices of the historian, nor in the interests of social, national or ecclesiastical advantage. Nor is it enough for him to record what is objectively true; he must select his material by a true standard of values, and estimate its significance in relation to a true concept of man’s welfare. The historian is surely abusing his vocation if he doe.-, not constantly strive to sift and interpret his material in the light of the eternal; otherwise he drops to the level of a propagandist.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 9
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168MAN’S WARFARE Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1940, Page 9
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