TOPICS OF THE DAY
Change of Heart, and Mind “There comes a point when we dare no longer be slow of heart to understand. The process of generations has its crises, and these times of crisis, short enough though they may be, change the course of the future. We call those crises ‘revolutions,’ or ‘reformations’: or, may be, ‘revivals.’ After them, matters are no longer quite what they were. A change of heart has come, and the common outlook is altered. There may still be battles for the Kingdom to fight; but they will be new battles, with new weapons, against new enemies in new arenas. You may work out from any knowledge of history you have how this has been proved time and time again. Slow progress through no matter how long a time yields scarcely any result; but a sudden dramatic movement, concentrated in a fragment of the present, may make all the difference to the ages to come. That is the ground of our hope, that is what we are praying for, longing for, toiling for: a change of mind.” —The Rev. P. T. R. Kirk, Secretary of the Industrial Christian Fellowship.
Dictatorship “Dictatorship means the subordination of the individual to the State, it means the imprisonment of the mind, it means restriction on the written and spoken word, even the unuttered thought; it means that man is no longer free to be himself, but can only be the expression of another man’s personality. If that is good for humanity, if it helps the development of civilisation, and therefore, the betterment of mankind, if it indeed supports the underlying philosophy of Christianity, then we in Britain and those who think like us are all wrong. But are we? Surely the Creator meant us to live in His image, not in the likeness of a Dictator? Surely He meant us to cultivate each his own individuality as given to us and not restrict our growth to a common standard. Surely He meant us to contribute each according to bis capacity to the common weal. For, on the sum total of those common contributions is democracy founded.” .—Lt.-Col. Sir Thomas Moore, M.P., writing in the Empire Review,
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 6
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368TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 6
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