THE SPIRIT OF SOCIETY
1 , 10 TD3 EDITOR. Sir,—Will you permit me to say with reference to Mr. Hale's letter in Monday's Post that I did not understand- you to suggest, nor do I believe it to be true, that the clergy are any more to blame for the present troubles than are those an authority in any other branch of our national life? We have all—politicians, clergy, journalists, lawyers, doctors, bankers, professors and other teachers, engineers, , etc.—concentrated our minds on our little human systems; not realising that we are inevitably governed'by the infinitely simple system laid down for us by the Ruler of the Universe and taught— not invented—by Jesus. Our development and degradation are determined in accordance with this system, which has never varied in its consequences by "one jot or tittle" ; so that our human systems are only of value in so far as they guide us into conformity with the Creator's system of government.. It' is this essential fact that all our learned people, including the clergy, have obviously given too little thought to, so that we have been led away from' the simple truth which can only be found in the practical operation of life.— I am, etc., F. G. BALZIELL. 30th March.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 78, 1 April 1920, Page 8
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