MEETING OF M.R.A.
Opening In Hamilton (N.Z. Press Association) HAMILTON, January 7. Conventional wisdom and morality seemed to offer no answer to the serious questions young people were asking today, the Mayor of Hamilton (Mr M. J. Minogue) said in opening the Moral Rearmament Conference at the University of Waikato. Mr Minogue said man had developed tremendous scientific and technological capacity but malnutrition and deprivation still existed. “If we have this capacity, why can’t we use it?” he said. However, youth could not live in a moral vacuum and if conventional wisdom were rejected it would have to be replaced by a new methodology, a new ideology or a return to Christianity that set out objectively to make it work.
“We must put before them the concept of a kind of world that requires positive acceptance and not negative rejection,” said Mr Minogue.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31881, 8 January 1969, Page 14
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