Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 6

Timely Topics

\ In view of the strong -decrees i signed by M. Lebrun, the President, [ last week, the following from the i London “Daily \ GREAT CHANGE Mail" 1 isf- 1 well \ IN FRANCE. worth repeating; [ “The change that ? has come over France since last autf umn has scarcely been realised here, i She is no longer a divided nation. • There is a new spirit abroad—evoked ?by the call of country which h'as I never failed her and never will. The |4O-hour week has disappeared, almost | without a murmur. Production has ? incrascd, unemployment has declined, | lax yields are rising and gold is flow- | ing back to Paris. Last month 'addi- | tional powers to increase war pro- ? Auction were taken by the Governi ment. In every department of de- | fence the Republic is forging ahead. ?M. Daladier is serving his country i and the democratic cause well.”

“The Biblical conception of sin,” s'aid Professor Niebuhr, in a Gifford Lecture at Edinburgh, “is compre-

hended in the idea THREE KINDS of pride, and the OF PRIDE. pride of man may be conveniently divided into three categories: pride of power, pride of intellect, and pride of goodness. “Pride of power is the assumption that man is more secure and self- | sufficient than he really is. Among those who have an extraordinary degree of social power, this pride ex- | presses itself in complacent terms. ’Among those who lack power, it expresses itself as a lust for the power ! and security which they lack. “in evten the most complacent pride of power there is an admixture of fear. The panoply of the proudest ruler cannot completely hide the fear of a common mortal. He may lose his power tod even his life. Obscurity is no peril to those who have never basked in the limelight. It is a threat only to those who have risen high in public acclaim. “Pride of intellect is the pretension that our truth is more absolute than it really is, a pretension from which no one escapes. When we judge other people and find them wanting, their deficiency is assumed to be a want of eternal truth, but there is always an element of dishonesty in this judgment.