MENTAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.
Sir,-I have often been impressed with the desirability, amounting in some cases to necessity, for definition in our speeches and writings. This impression has been reawakened by reading the report of Mr Hay's speecli delivered on Monday evening. Very probably the .reporter has missed eome of the things Mr Hav said, and I think he will not take it amiss if I ask him to supply a definition or two, and answer one or two qux'stions. -In hi s sentence "It is not merely a pathway which lies before each of us in life, but the realisation of a kingship'' the phrase "each of us " may convey different meanings to different minds. Does Mr Hay mean t.hat to evory man alike the realisation of tin's kingship is possible* Does be mean that this kingship is already the right, of any man and evory man, and only requires realisation? Then the word "realisation" would be the better of a definition. Does be mean mereh- taking possession or entering into the enjoyment, of it without any other change in the man? Then there, is tho word "Christian": this, too, has different meanings on different lips. To some everyone who is not a heathen or a Mohammedan is u Christian; others give the word a much narrower ap-» plication.-I am, etc., .Tno. A. D, Adams. Dunedin, March 4. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14465, 6 March 1909, Page 14
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228MENTAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14465, 6 March 1909, Page 14
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