TOPICS OF THE DAY
Capacity of Rebirth “Time will stand still for none of us. Life will never pause. The spirit of life is ceaseless motion, and if we would live we must live in the changes on which mankind is entering. We must be reborn into new conditions,” writes Mr Kenneth Ingram, in Towards Christianity. “We must possess the faculty not only to adapt ourselves to new conditions, but to be fully alert in all phases of our existence. We must live as vigorously in old age as in youth, even though, as wo grow old, our energy will express itself in mental and emotional rather than in physical forms. We must be able to wake up to a new world as wo wake to a new day, with our perceptions and our sympathies as keen as in the enthusiasms of yesterday. It is this gift of extended perception and eternal living which is the mark of Christianity. If we cannot be reborn, then wc have no share in the Christian life. The Christianity of the future, the Christianity of to-day, demands of us this capacity of rebirth.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20820, 2 June 1939, Page 6
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189TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20820, 2 June 1939, Page 6
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