MINISTER'S PARABLE

Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3210, 30 July 1932, Page 6

MINISTER'S PARABLE

In a speech at Glasgow, the Prime Minister (Mir Ramsay MsacDonald) referred to the allegation that the League of Nations is making but slow progress, and he told the following parable:—We are all groaning under the slowness of the pace; so am 1. I told you that the problems we have to face aire not simple, and depend not upon the good will of one nation, but upon the agreement of all nations. That reminds me of a story that was told in a sort of interpretation of the Creation. The story is that, when the powers in Heaven decided that the earth was to be created and that the supreme end of creation was to be man, a great hallelujah went up. The first day came and there was nothing but a separation of vague things—the kind of general resolution declaring a principle, and there were some very worthy angels and archangels who said, " This is slow." The second day came, and the earth was separated from the waters, and then ther was a reference to an expert rommittee to see what would follow, and well-intentioned angels and archangels said, " This is no good; there is far too much compromise in this business for us." ,

The revolt spread, and the discontents started a press of their own. And the third day and the fourth day and the fifth day came, and by that time all those angels had become so impatient that on the fifth day there was a revolution, and the rebels had to be bundled out. The imperturbable and indominitable powers of creation then wiped their brows and said " Create man." And man was created on the sixth day. Do not get disappointed because things go too slowly. We will go on as quickly as possible, and the sixth day will come, and on that day we shall have accomplished work which will be recorded as among the most illustrious in the pages of history.