POINTS OF VIEW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12281, 27 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

POINTS OF VIEW.

No translation in verse is worth the p&pcS, on which it is printed.Andrew ,inf Longman's Magazine. [ It is time that the Church should make tiet question of suicide the subject of some very] plain teaching.—Church Times. / The preacher of unpopular doctrine remains unpopular long after liis doctrine hag become the accepted creed.Westminster' Gazette. _ \ The rich man with all his wealth does not;/ and practically Cannot, obtain the scientific! advantages that the poor man can, and does*: obtain for nothing.—Hospital. ( The accepting of presents by the em-'j ployed from the employer, especially wheufi the employment is so temporary as in pri-i vate nursing, cannot but be a degradation tot: any protession.il feeling.—Hospital. The breaking down of vanity may often mean the breaking down of the whole per« sonality. It is not strong enough to meat' the world unclothed, unarmed.—"Claudius Clear," in the British Weekly. English people do not want as theitf leaders the shopman pure and simple, how-j ever sound his goods. Something more is indispensableimagination. No English!' l statesman of the front rank 'lias been with-! out it.Saturday Review. j The reign of Elizabeth wilL live in the, memories of Englishmen as the golden age' of literature, and a period of national ex-il pansion and splendid patriotism. We can not regard it as glorious from the point -of; view of Churchmen.Church Times. ! What strikes me more and more, the mora? I reflect on the problems of our common life in great cities, is the amount of moral forcer that exists in the community, and the smalls ness of the results which seem to follow it&' exercise.Professor O'ones (Glasgow Univcr- 1 sity). If the Seventh Commandant were expunged from the decalogue, our Western' society 110 doubt would suffer serious iiieort-. venience until it had had time to reconstruct its family life on a fresh basis, but the stage would be a "gainer from tin very outset.— Times Literary Supplement.