The Waikato Independent TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3277, 5 March 1935, Page 4

The Waikato Independent TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935. NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE LAYMAN'> JOB ! .“Wo are living- in a chaotic tlire'atI'ciiing' anil immensely interesting era. that was accepted by our [fathers is now written with a note of interrogation at the end —the world is absolutely in the melting-pot, ’ ’ said i,Mr Sidney Dark, editor of the Church [Times. “I believe the historian of the [future: will realise without any sort of that an era of the world’s history definitely came to an end in iilOU. “We are living in an age of revolution. What is to be determined by Young England is whether it shall be a Christian or an anti-Christian revolution. It would lie impossible to exag:gc;fate the value of co-operation and coherence, of being men and women, and young men and women who, while alive, and not unappreciative of the theories, dreams and aspirations of the Pnewage are still convinced that the toiily hope of humanity lies in the faith once delivered to the saints. It isn’t our business to be going round the world asking people if they are saved. If our religion is to be of any use to ,us or to the time in which we live it lias to make us pleasant, courteous, unselfish and efficient people, in the society in which we Jive —and that is the layman’s job.’’

i DICTATORSHIPS “Dictatorships have created tyrannies not only over the body alone, but over the human mind, —the real test of a tyranny —in the names of proletarian freedom and of racial solidarity and power. But I do not believe that these reactions toward barbarism will be permanent,’’ the Marquess of Lothian said recently. “Indeed, already, the signs are high in the heavens that the mitions- ykitdi have been faithful to liberty and the scientific spirit are making better headway through chaos and ’depression than those who have surrendered their thinking and their, freedom an to dictatorial hands. “Human progress, the attainment of lithe immense possibilities which. I believe ure now within human grasp, the ip,mergence of that new religious attitude to life-which is the final solution Ijof. the problem, will come only-if there ( aro enough people who refuse to subunit their .minds to external controls, who think for themselves, think active-

lv, think seientilically, think honestly, intelligently, lovingly, mercifully about everything which comes within the range of their consciousness, and then act fearlessly in the light of that thinking."