CREATIVE FORCE
NEED TO FACE REALITIES. In religion we must be as bold, as free, as honest, as prepared to face all realities as in science or philosophy, writes the late Dr. John Oman in his book “Honest Religion. " just published posthumously. Slavery to tradition, fear of inquiry, submission to institutions are not religion but the want of it, not faith but unbelief; the difference is only in the sphere in which honesty is exercised, religion being the sphere in which we are ever reaching out beyond what eye lias seen. Science and philosohpy have their place, ami man's restless mind will ever try to think things together. But relgion has ever been the creative force in history, anti man’s central interest must ever be in reaching forward and upward toward a world not yet realised.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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136CREATIVE FORCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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