W.E.A.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 June 1927, Page 4

W.E.A.

MR MANDER’S LECTURE. ~ 'jfcl Mr A. E. Mander had a numerous , v and appreciative audience'‘in tlie Muni- v . fr cipal Social Hall last evening,'When he ,* took as the subject of his W.E.A, ' ture, \ 1 Erasmus^-URefortn' : or RcvoliU, * tion. ’’l Mrs'T. R. Earref 'presided.! ", Mr Mander l gdve‘ an' iinpressiiy e ‘.. cfc-,. * A scriptipn of the calm sage of the'Reformation era-—»the man who was/so j., , far ahead of his time in standing up.j gallantly for toleration and for re-, ~,( form ;by peaceful 'methods ih an pge^ : ... ( ,. when the known world was plunged into sayage dissension and strife—-and,. of what he sought to accomplish! Lacking the dynamic force-'that enabled’ Martin Luther ~to send the world hurt--’ ’ ling into new ways, 'Erasmus yet was and is, a very noble and impressive" ’ figure. Men tOrdav are learriNig slowly and with difficulty the lessons that Erasmus Was so well able to teach, and that the people of his own time failed so hopelessly to understand and appreciate. In his lecture next week, Mr Mander will deal with Luther and his achievement, and in the following lecture with Sir Thomas More.