GOLDEN RULE WORKS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 66286, 5 October 1925, Page 7

GOLDEN RULE WORKS.

“There is a shining star of expectation in respect of the social life of the world. The student of the great societies is gradually becoming aware of a tremendous fact. This may be put in rather blunt and homely fashion in these words: The golden rule works backward. It is not merely an ideal —it is a judge which 'pronounces sentences apd enforces them. The golden rule as poetry is rather likely to be lovely, but impotent. The golden rule as a grave and unhesitating Nemesis is rather likely to be taken seriously. Since the world war we are learning that if we do not learn to live like brothers we will bring the roof down upon the whole mass of men and women who make up the ..civilised world.” —Dr. Lynn Hough, in the Cln-istion Century.