EDUCATION OF SPIRIT

Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3184, 31 May 1932, Page 2

EDUCATION OF SPIRIT

ENGLAND’S PART. “The future will demand of England that she put the education of the spirit in the forefront of her national effort on pain of sinking to insignificance in world affairs,” writes Sir Francis Younghusband in To-day and To-morrow.

“For in the future is that vision which the great religious leaders of mankind, the great thinkers and the great poets, throughout the ages, have tried by compendiously summed up in the expression the Kingdom of Heaven. This must, in the medium of the times, be brought to each generation afresh. Each must be taught in its own way to see it.

“ Then, as men realise its value, they will zealously work to bring it about. Their own power of goodwill they will make more vitally positive. The better things in other nations which are so much more real than what usually appears on the surface they will more gladly recognise. Fear and suspicion, selfishness and jealousy, will then as surely vanish away as they do from the hearts of the players once they are under the sway of the music. And the kingdom will be at hand. “Hi bringing individual Englishmen together on these lines, and then getting the nations together, England has a great part to play. The future is calling her to do it.”