SAINTS AND SUMMERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6319, 23 February 1922, Page 3

SAINTS AND SUMMERS.

“IF ONLY THE GOOD WERE

CLEVER.”

Miss Lily Bengali, writing in The Challenge, says:— * , ' , “T have several deeply revered frienos who have given up all. they possessed for the sake of the Kingdom. We can all ncfmire self-sacrifice and respect the sense of personal vocation. Yet. in the history o. the Church, ■ we must all recognise that moral havoc h*i been wrought when any ideal possible only for a few has been sat forth <is the religions life/ 'the higher life/' or a counsel of perfection. "What we need is hard thinking, earnest prayer, and patient reform of human values. If all Christians made themselves destitute, would it advance reform,? It is always the temptation, not of the sinner but of the saint, to believe chat if he throw himself cloven from the pinnacle of the- temple, God will vindicate his faith and convince trie world: in other words, it has always been the most religious communities who have believed that if they obeyed some, scruple of conscience, Gc« would intervene to save society/’