Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 10 August 1938, Page 4

Timely Topics

“The Christian method of action in a situation, such as that in which we stand today, where great masses of mankind 'are suffering from deep-seated psychological lesion, is much less con-

THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

| spicuous and much slower in operaf lien, but infinitely sounder (says ;j. S. Hoyland, in “Prayer of f the Social Revolution”) . . . But lit is in line with the fundamental 1 principles of a universe in which the \ highest product of evolution, so far fas we can be aware, is the self-direct-I ing human personality, built up by a | steady process 0 f widening and deep- ? ening co-operation. This Christian I method declares that a psychological I trouble can only be cured by psychological means; that Mammonism, with fall its outcomes, must be combated Iby getting the patient’s mind to em- • brace a loyalty wider than, his own

private advantage: that this demands a change of motives by which the psychological springs of his action shall become not selfish greed, but the goodowill for others which has built the universe and mankind within the universe: and that this change of motive can only come about by contact with the living Spirit of Christ, which will enter the hearts of men.” r a is @ 5? “We m<ay be wrong. But, as things are, we emphatically do not agree with those alarmists who tell us there is no middles policy

THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE.

between complete submission to. the dictators on the

one hand and a European war on., the other,” writes Professor Gilbert MurPay, in “The Times.” “Recent experiments in aggression are not encouraging t c the aggressors, and we have Ludendorff’s authority for holding that, under the conditions of modem warfare, it would be madness for'any n'ation to attack an adversary of approximately equal strength. The vast majority of mankind who desire, to live in peace and obey the law can surely, however reluctant to organise, produce out of their immense resources something a good ddal better than that. Unfortunately, ' in' your own,words, Sir, ‘the leaders of certain States are always ready to exploit the wholesome reluctance of most countries to go to War.’ The problem of diplomacy is to check .the exploitation in time, not by resorting to war, but by showing clearly beforehand that, with England and France as a nucleus, the League members Wave both the power and the will alike to remedy real grievances and to resist unprovoked aggression.”