GROPING AFTER TRUTH
EFFECT OF PRESENT TIMES. Th times of world stress such as this second quarter of the 20th century men’s minds and hearts instinctively rise in revolt against the materialistic temper to which they justifiably charge much of social disaster, and seek knowledge of the roots of life, the sources of their beings, says Mr Robert O. Ballou in introducing “The Bible of the World,” of which he is the editor. Seeking at first release from their uncertainty, insecurity and pain, they find in their search a need for something more than mere escape. Everywhere throughout the world there is evidence of this groping return to a search for universal truth as it is manifested in the religious impulse. Even the passionate desire of great numbers of persons to save democracy, which at first glance is a social and political phenomenon, is actually closely connected with this return, for the ideal of democracy is itself a natural (lowering of the social idealism inherent in every great religion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1941, Page 6
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169GROPING AFTER TRUTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1941, Page 6
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