SERVICE TO OTHERS

Southland Times, Issue 19294, 12 July 1924, Page 5

SERVICE TO OTHERS

SCIENCE AND RELIGION A REMARKABLE UTTERANCE THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. (By Telegraph—Press .Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 11. (Received July 11, 8.10 pun.). Lord Leverhulme, in the course of a remarkable lecture at Liverpool, said that men of science, once freed from the thraldom of the Churches, wrong interpretation and maladministration of the Bible, had done more in the last two centuries to raise the level of mankind’s comfort and happiness than the Church had achieved in all the previous centuries. Though religion had not kept pace with scientific achievements, still leas had the industrialists kept pace with religion. Manufacturers did not ignore the national or economic laws, but they were ignoring the ethical laws propounded the Sermon on the Mount. They considered it good business to give poor working conditions and very low wages. On the other hand, trade unions seemed to imagine that short hours, small output and high wages were good business. Both ignored the ethical laws. “Sendee to others” was the only true road to happiness.

The great men of former ages were men who conquered the world. The great men of to-day and to-morrow are the men who are serving the world, writes Dr. Frank Crane in Current Opinion. Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Julius Caesar, Attila, Louis the Magnificent, Napoleon, were warrior heroes. They climbed to the peaks of fame up mountains of dead bodies. The blare of band music that heralded their glory, the cheers of the multitude that greeted their triumph, were hardly able to drown the moans of heartbreak and the shrieks of anguish of their victims. Those were the days when the Great Ones of earth were the rulers of men. Evolution has unfolded. The mind of mankind has ripened. The world has fairly entered into that zone of time in which greatness is measured by service. Even the God of the past was called the King of Kings in the effort of men’s imagination to exalt His magnificence. We are beginning to glimpse a better title for the Deity, one, indeed, suggested to us by His chief representative, ‘‘Servant of all.” As our boys and girls read history they learn that at this date and that such a man was ruler of a nation. In the Fiftieth Century boys and girls shall learn the names of those men who, each in his epoch, was the most conspicuous servant of the people.