TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19899, 30 May 1936, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

This Freedom Liberty, Signor Mussolini declares is a “fetish.” Herr Hitler says that the duty of the German is “:1 blind obedience in the will of the Fuhrer." This is the quite frank denial of personnl freedom in the sense of the right of every man to think and act according to his own conscience; and the fruits of it are seen in the suppression of freedom of Speech and of n. free Press, and in many other ways. The result may he a people so perfeelly drilled as to be very powerful; but it is not the way to a people‘s true greatness. And certainly here we may say it is not our own way. The age of even Cromwell and his divtntorsliip \\‘ns also the age of Milton and the “Arcopagitiezl” with its immortal plea for freedom. Surely, then, we in England who have inherited civil and religious freedom must realise how precious is our trust, and must, indeed, discharge that trust worthily if we are to preserve that freedom for our successors and for the Wul‘l(l.—Dr. Karl Hcins, in :1 recent address to Germnn churchmen.

Philippians of the Past Ono's mind was photographing the bare hills with the wide plains spread out below; the shepherds with thvir long (‘rooks watching their (lurlvllénvcd flanks—to see them is to nmn'm'intv the many i'vfm‘ent'ns in the New Testament to the shepherd Hill] his sheep—thi" uliiquitmis (l011l(t‘_\', so lrulon with houghs that at times he looks likr‘ :1 moving: hush. m‘ Partying: hampers of fund, and mysterious hundh‘s; the soldiwrs sunntcring nlong the rnml or standing to stnro; thn women working: on thn pour land; the mon ploughing with n ynke of axon. nnrl :1 fusr‘innting, tiny shepherd of about six tcnilr‘r years Parrying: his little l'l'UOh’. One thinks nf Philippi very specially in onnner‘tiou with St. Pan], and among the scanty ruins of a great town one must 11.:1‘ imagination to rnhnild it. Only ruins, with St. T’anl'; lr’ltillppi, many foot lwluw the surt'nvn on whivh we scramble]. Behind us :1 high, rocky hill, grim and have, and tho monntnins line upon line beyond that, until .\\C saw a. snowy peak-Sunday Times.