The Guardian.
TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1941. Notes and Comments
: .». CHANGELESS FUNDAMENTALS
Printed at Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand, on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
The current assumption that we are living in an entirely changed world and everything is different from what it was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers was challenged in a recent address by the president of the English Methodist Conference, Dr. Henry Bett. "It is this assumption," he said, "that explains many of the abortions in the ■ ultra-modern music you sometimes hear broadcast that sounds as if it were coming from a lunatic asylum; the ultra-modern art, the ultra-modern poetry that doesn't rhyme and doesn't scan, and doesn't even make sense. Sometimes it is extended to the world of morality and religion, and we are told we must seek a new religion—if indeed we are to have any at all. The explanation is this: This is a world in which some things change and some things remain the same. As a philosophical principle, if there were not something that remained the .same there would be nothing to change. Railways andj aeroplanes and electric light were big changes, and they have naturally impressed the minds of men. Buit they are only changes of mechanism. The bigger things of life have not changed. Men are born in the same way and they die in the same way, and everything that really matters in the life of man is much as it has always been since the world began, and will go on being the same till the world's end. Therefore the work of the Church is always in the last resort the appeal to the individual. The Church ought to witness to the nation in the cause of peace and other good causes, but I am sure that the real work of the Church is always appeal to the personality. The great salvation that is in Christ is for all men, but it is not a wholesale salvation. It cannot save, communities and nations because they are made up of men,"
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LXII, Issue 23, 25 March 1941, Page 3
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