PRESERVING LIBERTY
We heard it said frequently in the European crisis a few weeks ago that liberty was in danger, writes Canon F R. Barry in a recent article. It aiways is. For it is in the end a quality of soul—something that must be constantly rewon, that must be deserved if we are to keep it. If, us price is eternal vigilance, that is vigilance over ourselves as much as others. Whatever the pressure of external danger, its greatest peril is always from within—the drying up -of the springs of conviction and slackness or triviality of. soul. The call to us surely is to mobilise the spiritual resources of democracy which derive from an attitude to life and one another which is bound up with the Christian faith in God. Whatever be the anxieties and sacrifices which may be imposed upon us in the coming urn*, let us British at least regain our souls and be loyal to the things that have made us, and for which we stand in the world.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23669, 29 November 1938, Page 7
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