AGE OF SERVICE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1005, 23 June 1930, Page 14

AGE OF SERVICE

IDEALS OF NEW ERA NEW RELIGIOUS THOUGHT The wonderful changes in all departments of life was mentioned in an address by Mr. H. F. Robinson, at the Higher Thought Temple yesterday. He claimed that in orthodox re igion alone a serious attempt was being made to cling to the ethics and ideals of the past, but even here the younger minds were endeavouring to introduce a broader vision. The greatest discovery of the age, claimed the speaker, was the rediscovery of the power of thought. Without thought none of the marvellous changes could have been wrought, and. as its power became known and appreciated, so did the world progress more rapidly. Time and space were illusions of the material mind which were being robbed rapidly of their apparent reality by the knowledge which man was gaining. The universal troubles and trials that irritate and distress mankind today were the birth pains of a new age. The eventual outcome would surely be a better, nobler, more enlightened and more magnificent age than that of which were were now standing by the death-bed.

The keynote of the passing age had been sacrifice, typified by the life and death of Jesus Christ, whose passage through physical life had inaugurated that age. The keynote of the new age was service, and that condition would mark the conduct of man dui'ing the new epoch. The true test of all actions was the motives which inspired them, and by such they were weighed and judged.