LIFE AND LIBERTY.
HARMFUL MODERN TRENDS.
EMANCIPATION OF YOUTH.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
NELSON, Saturday.
In her presidential address at the Women's Christian Temperance Union Conference Mrs. Taylor referred to some of the harmful tendencies of the present day. She said that moral and spiritual development necessitated _tremendous limitations in the field of individual liberty. Freedom that interfered with the happiness and development of society as a whole was not true freedom, and led only to chaos. In spite of many dangerous trends the young people on the whole were splendid in their newly found emancipation, but the fact remained they had largely overlooked the true meaning of life and liberty. Many never realise the conditions and loyalties that made possible life in fullest. The spiritual foundation was not there, and for two generations it had been lacking.
"Nothing less than a spiritual awakening from one end of the country to the other will avail to rouse us to a sense of what we owe to ourselves and to those around us," she said. "This means an awakening to the necessity for loyalty and service, if not to old ideals then at least to new valuations and ideals of life in the highest plane."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 3
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