TIMELY TOPICS

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1933, Page 4

TIMELY TOPICS

TRUE BOND OF EMPIRE. “The true bond of Empire is the spiritual bond,” said Mr. John Buchan, M.P., the Lord High Commissioner, at a Church of Scotland meeting. “Its cohesion is in its ideals and not in its form of government. Tt means that over a large part of the earth ’s surface racial and national limitations have boon transcended. It is an instalment, of the old drama of the brotherhood of man. It means that one great part of the globe at least is marked out where there can be no war. It is not a proud, racial aristocracy to dominate the world; it is an alliance based partly on a common ancestry and common memories, but far more deeply upon a common creed, a common civilisation and a common faith, a Its

‘name of Empire has been often falcon j in vain. Many false and vainglorious 'words liave lioon spoken about it, and too often it has been eoneeived in the . terms of a shallow materialism. But that is not the true Empire. The true .Empire, is a spiritual thing based' es-j jsontinlly upon Christian ideals. There j 'is no pantile! in history to our vast 'assemblage of scattered peoples, linked !together by a faith and a purpose asking no tribute to each other, but 'ready, as the war showed, to enter on 1 behalf of its sane and honest ideals, into a common sacrifice. It is a j union in far more than the functions .of government.” 1 111 (S'®. WORDS OF WISDOM. The capacity of the human brain is j tremendous, but people put it to no use—they live sedentary mental lives. —Edison. HOB® TALE OF THE DAY, Stout gentleman (taking dinner party to theatre): “Will yon get me a couple of taxis?’-’ Hotel Commissionaire (misunderstanding): “Ah, sir! You will ’ave your little joke!’’