TOPICS OF THE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20494, 10 May 1938, Page 6

TOPICS OF THE DAY

The Young People “We have to offer young people what we can, for them to make what they will of it. The attitude of ‘you take it from me’ is always quite hopeless. You can always say, ‘Here is the line of thought or the kind of experience I have gone through, and I offer it to you to see how far you can take it over for yourself and adopt this standpoint for your own, but you have to choose/ Unless we start that way there will be a feeling that we are simply part of the older generation who have made the mess. We must try to lead young people to ask whether it may not be true that the religious principles that have meant a great deal in the history of our country are really the inspiration to which they have been unconsciously trusting, and ask whether they will not now deliberately and consciously trust them.

“There is need for a great deal of sympathy towards young people to-day because, with the physical energy that belongs to their years, they can go through a great deal of life light-hearted. But behind the light-hearted surface of their lives there is very often a profound unhappiness which is due to the fact that they have not found what seems to them anything that may securely guide them towards the fulfilling of their own destinies or enable then effectively to be of service. They have lost in confidence, and one of the greatest services we can render to them is—not to give it back to them, for we cannot do that, but to show them how possibly they may recover it for themselves.”—The Archbishop of York.