SPLENDID AND FAILURE
“The present, state of Europe is a terrible demonstration of the failure of humanism, by which I mean a glorification of man and a repudiation of God.” said Dr W. R. Matthews, Dean of St Paul’s, in a recent, address. "When that state of mind is accepted as the right and normal one, it is followed by an immense self-assertion which recognises no limits. As we saw, Christ, did not teach that man is either great or noble in himself. He is great and noble because he is a child of God and he is subject, always to the judgment of God. lie is splendid and a failure —splendid because he has the capacity to share the mind and life of God. and a failure because he has turned to his own ways and selfcentred ambitions.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1940, Page 6
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139SPLENDID AND FAILURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1940, Page 6
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