ROCKS IN PATH OF YOUTH

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 5 September 1932, Page 7

ROCKS IN PATH OF YOUTH

CAUSE OF MANY WRECKS. GOVERNOR-GENERAL’S WARNING (By Telegraph—Press AESoclaxlonj WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. “Modern conditions present to the safe progress of youth tw r o specially formidable rocks upon which millions of healthy, promising young lives are being wrecked to-day,” said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, in the course of his address at the Youth for Youth campaign rally yesterday. “One is called self-indulgence and the other .scientific bewilderment. “The first affects weak, shallow minds, particularly those for whom their homes have provided little or no spiritual anchorage. The other, which is more subtle ill influence, impresses those of greater intellectual activity and more serious purpose and consists of too hasty, conclusions based upon purely scientific teaching or the reasoning of the scientific mind concentrated only on material things isuch as come readily within the scope of our limited human understanding. “The spiritual food for which youth is craving, often without realising it, is best obtained from the Bible, the best of all hooks. Remember now' your Creator in the days of your youth, and He will ever be near you to guard you against the perilous rocks of miscalled pleasure and miscalled scientific truth.” In the procession which marked the opening of the Youth for Youth campaign a total of 2709 young people took part.