BROTHERLY LOVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 6

BROTHERLY LOVE.

Ella Basten. I auree with mo-t of your principles expressed, and otherwise, but apparently you doubt that "de-ire decides what is done." If so, why do y<iu put the question, "Was it not the unbridled desire of this seducer," etc.? Thank von: Were I the

"Married" referred to I would sav "Yes.*' and point out that there was no nece-»itv to quote chapter, verse and authority other than Ella Basten. who cited "unbridled de-ire."' thereby allowing "bridled desire" and apparently admitting desire to lie a fact—a controlling fact. Do not be offended: some pul.'if wrestling matches are settled on "the home mat." Reason! Reason—what a thin;; to p'.av with! Reason is a judgment based on knowledge. And the area of knowledge is t-xp< • it-nce plus what we are told. Rea.-on: will its standard be the ~p ->e to-morrow a- to-dav? Will iti edge ct-. at home as cleanlv as awav'; Will it not "hied to the "exict-neies of th« momei always clean, m-ver coloured, never j, . We need more than reason. Self-con.roi. j Lis is another that may product good, or seemingly good. It that which inspire* self-control. or reason, i-. not clean it-elf. what a mess! What self-deception, what worlddeception is not possible—for a time? Is no» self-controlled, cultured seliishness a srreatc-i tha'i that which exists in the drears ol ci\ ilisation ? One is stark naked, in e\ idence, the other, veiled, subtle. \\\- nevd Sometiling greater than reason, self-control: sonseihii.ir to guide both. Just clean-souled brothrriv love. SsYNTHESISE.