“RACE OF LOUNGELIZARDS”

Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 10

“RACE OF LOUNGELIZARDS”

AUSTRALIANS CRITICISED •• SUN WORSHIP IS FAGAN " Urging the people of Australia to be more alive to their responsibilities, the Rev. C. B. Cockett, in a special Anniversary Day service at the Pitt Street Congregational Church, Sydney, said that Australians were becoming a race of “ lounge-lizards.” “ We should not bo content to laze along a macadamised road made for us by the pioneers,” he said. “To worship the sun and to laze in it on the beaches is nothing glorious or magnificent. To worship the sun is to become a pagan, not befitting the pioneer qualities our ancestors possessed,” he said. “ Through forests of sin and through jungles of fear and death, the pioneers of the British Empire laid great foundations, and their challenge has been handed down to us to follow, not to become lounge-lizards thinking of little else but surfing and sunning, but for the development of higher ideals. “ We need the same devotion for the Cross as we do for the flag. If we follow those precepts, the love of God will shine upon us, for ‘Blessed are they that sail unknown seas, for they shall find much land and treasure therein.’ ”