PREPARATION FOR LIFE
"It is impossible to face difficulties without some controlling philosophy of life which combines our outer and inner life and teaches us to face catas, trophe without surprise or despair. In a word, the child of the future must be a Christian," said Lord David Cecil in a broadcast talk on preparing children for life. "The Christian religion is designed pre-eminently to support a man in the sort of worlduv which he is likely to find himself 20 years hence. It teaches man to take no thought for the morrow; it makes it his duty to take part in Me: to do aU he can to make the world better. to maintain his standard of values against all opposition. But it also not to despair if efforts seem to be in vain Human life, in the Christian view is essentially imperfect, full oi suffering and apparent failure: only behind the flux of visible things looms always the eternal world of God august, moving, mysterious .and serene, to its appointed and glorious end ine disasters of the present age have shaken those philosophies of life which depend on a belief in human progress: they have only reinforced the truth of the' Christian conception of the universe."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23931, 5 October 1939, Page 10
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