"GOOD OLD DAYS"?

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 10

"GOOD OLD DAYS"?

ADDRESS BY DR. RANSTON

"I do not believe in the 'good old days.' I, have read enough about the •good oia days' to know they are really th«|bad ojd days,' "^remarked the Rovw 3>r.' H. ,Banston, M.A., Litt.D., speaking at a meeting of Methodist Bible Claw : members in Wesley Hall, Taranaki street, yesterday afternoon. The Speaker referred to the "dreamer* of dreams" of the past-I—men such as Tyndale, LutKer, and Wesley, who had dreamed, and whose dreams and visions had become realities. The greatest things of the world had been evolved in times of stress. Because the world to-day was going through aii upheaval,' men.: and, women were needed who could dream and bring their dreams to fruition. (

Dr. Ranston challenged his hearers to put more time, energy, and self-sacri-fice into their Bible class and church work. The Bible class could be the most virile, the most spiritual, anej the -strongest force in the Church, but it would need more effort on the part of members to bring this atiout. He ■urged .those present to "talk the Church up." ' There were faults and : failures, but these should not be ventilated before outsiders. Individual members might want to discuss them ■ among themselves. ';■ Dr. Ranston, who in addition to • being-president,of the Methodist Conference is professor at the Methodist "Theological College, left for Auckland last evening.