SELF-DISCIPLINE
THE FAMILY AND THE NATION. “A nation conscious of the value of self-discipline, even if it involves, as all self-discipline must, some measure of self-denial, and convinced by the experience of centuries that the true basis of the fabric of the State is not the individual but the family, with its traditions of mutual support and sacrifice, will be slow to yield to the demands of those who, falsely invoking the name of progress, would degrade marriage to the level of a transient union contracted on impulse and dissolved at will. Even Russia, having made experience of that, is moving back to relationships more stable. In holding inflexibility to its standards and refusing to confuse the better with the worse, while at the same time giving full consideration to cases of individual difficulty and hardship, the Church is justifying itelf to citizen without its borders as well as within.” “The Spectator” (London).
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 10
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