STRIVING FOR PROGRESS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21647, 4 December 1935, Page 5

STRIVING FOR PROGRESS

NEEDS OP WORLD TO-DAY

I Since he arrived In Christchurch early last month on a world tour lecturing on practical psychology and its spplication to everyday life, Mr W. Shakespeare Binks has gained a large following. So many have attended I his free lectures and so many others have been unable to gain admission that he has decided to. Commence a new series in the Caledonian Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. His lectures will cover entirely fresh ground and the title of the opening address will be "Happiness in Love, Marriage, and the Home." The science of "humanology," says Mr Binks, is his life study. Whatever he has already accomplished in Christchurch is only a fraction of what is needied. He believes that to-day people all over the world are groping towards a means that, can bring them self-expression and self-advancement, with, of course, the ability to assist others. There is a coristant striving for success and achievement and people flounder in a morass of ideas, wondering vainly how to go about attaining their object. There is the keenest desire everywhere to make daily life yield its richest and its fullest. Too frequently one meets a lassitude and a tendency to let things go on in the same old way. Bad times are blamed for every ill, economically, physically, mentally, and socially. There is generally a reason for it when people with only average ability win the prizes so earnestly sought by the mass. It is not to be found in "depression" but within oneself—in one's mental attitudes, personality, and individuality. My mission here is to help as many people as possible to gain the right mental attitude, to cast out secret fears which make countless lives unhappy and bar the way to success. In short, it is my object to secure for as many people as possible self-advancement, applying the precepts laid down by the world's greatest research workers.

Lectures will continue in the Radiant Hall on December 5 and 6, at 8 p.m„ and on December 7 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. In response to hundreds of applications for admission Mr Binks has taken the St. James' Theatre for the lectures at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Sunday next. Lightning sketches on the stage and coloured pictures on the screen will be used to illustrate the lectures.