TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Human Personality. “ The Christian State proclaims human personality to be supreme, the servile State denies this. Every compromise with the infinite value of the human soul leads straight back to savagery and the Expel this truth of our religion, and what follows? The insolence of dominion, and the cruelty of despotism. Denounce religion as the opium of the people, and you swiftly proceed to de- ■ nounoe political liberty and civil liberty as opium. Freedom of uh sroes tolerance follows, and justice is no more. Inc trims oiMlio free spirit of man do not grow in the garden of tyranny. “The torch I would hand to you, and ask you to pass from hand to hand along the pathways of the Empire, is a Christian truth rekindled anew ill each ardent generation. Use men as ends and never merely as means; and live for the brotherhood of man, which implies the Fatherhood of God. The brotherhood of man to-day is often denied and derided and called foolishness; but it is, in fact, one of the foolish things of the world which God has chosen to confound the wise, and the world is confounded by it daily. We may evade it, we inav deny it; but we shall find no rest for our souls, nor will the world, until we acknowledge it as the ultimate wisdom.”— Lord Baldwin at a youth rally.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20279, 23 August 1937, Page 6
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234TOPICS OF THE DAY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20279, 23 August 1937, Page 6
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