“HONI SOIT”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 672, 25 May 1929, Page 8

“HONI SOIT ”

QUIET CORKER

(Written /or THE SUN by the Rev. Charles Chandler, Assistant City Missioner J above title has been chosen by the students of the Sydney University for their new magazine. The motto of the publication is to be, “without principles and unscrupulous.” With a motto like that we should expect to find some purple patches in the first number. That motto is pregnant with the spirit of youth. Youth resents the preachiness of this present age, and by way of protest against those icho would have them go to bed at ten, they flout such a motto as this before sanctimonious eyes. If the young men and women of today must have religion, they prefer to find it for - themselves. The denominational bickerings of their supposedly spiritual superiors leave them cold. Viewing the present state of xcorld affairs they see a great discrepancy between profession and practice. Before we have completely regained our balance after the last war, we seem to be in peril of the next. Arguments for and against the theory of evolution gain precedence over the more important matter of giving to mankind a practical interpretation of the teaching of Jesus. Youth believes in health. There never was a time when there was more sanity displayed in the matters of dress and recreation. The prudishness of the early Victorian era has gone for good, and as a result there is a healthier relationship between the sexes. Let us not despair of these, our younger brethren. They are shaping well. They are showing a man-sized hatred of shams, and are tired of the continual emphasis upon “principles ,” with an accompanying dearth of actual practice. If there is one thing more wrong xvith us than another, it is this—we are far too respectable, and the publishers of “Honi Soit" seem to be determined to tear away this thin veneer and do some plain speaking. More power to them. NEXT WEEK: THE ONE MAN BAND.