The Sabbatb

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18950, 20 May 1933, Page 14 (Supplement)

The Sabbatb

PRAYER OF UNEMPLOYED MAN. “Here In the quiet of my room, 0 God, , , I come to Thee for friendship; to feel That Some One is with me, though unseen. All day I have seen a multitude of people, But I am still lonely and hungry for human cheer. No life has touched mine in understanding; No hand has clasped mine In friendship; My heart is empty and my hands are idle Help me to feel Thy presence, So that the disappointment of this day Shall not overwhelm me. Keep me from becoming cynical and bitter; Keep me warm and human, and seta new faith t Before my eyes—a new hope to live by And a new spirit with which to overcome discouragements. Guide me to that very necessary thing Of life—WOßK ! Abide with me and bo my friend. In the name of Illm who went about Doing good. Amen." —W. C. Ackerly. In the Churchman of New York. OUR OBLIGATION TO OTHERS. The Archbishop of York, in the course of his Gifford Lecture on “Moral Goodness," said:— “From birth we find ourselves living as members of a society with one weal and woe. By the constitution of our nature we are bound up with one another. This is the root of consciousness of obligation, though that quality in our consciousness is usually only brought into distinct apprehension when obligation clashes with interest. “Moral progress consists largely in the widening of the area in which the obligations of membership are recognised. Different codes ot' conduct are appropriate to the successive stages of tills process, so that the content of duly varies from one civilisation to another; but this does not affect the nature of obligation itself, or the inherent logic which makes it a principle of progress. “Because duty is concerned with all varieties of persons It calls for Infinitely delicate adjustments that can only be reached by sympathy. “When v/e combine this with the recognition that what is obligatory Is not a code of conduct but the conscientious will, we see that the only satisfactory form of the moral law is ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’ But if man is made to live by love then in the ground of that natural order from which he springs, there must be the source or love." POST-WAR “DRIFTERS” PASSING. Dr. Bertram Lee Yvoolf, the newlyappointed minister at Hie King's Weigh House, who is succeeding lo the pulpit of Dr, \v. E. Orchard, who resigned a year ago, and went over to the Roman Catholic Church, said to an Evening News, of London, correspondent : "Religion is alive. The new generation is distinctly feeling for a new form of expression. “I know of six groups of public school boys in West London who regularly meet in their own way. trying lo find an expression for religious faith. Just after the war there was a

general drift away from religion. That is still going on, but there is growing up in the generation succeeding those drifters this serious desire to find an acceptable expression of faith. ■ . “The same thing applies to the spiritual life in the wider sense. “For Instance, the motor-car is no novelty to the new generation. These young people have been brought up with cars, and cars no longer have the attraction of novelty which they had for the previous generation. “The truth is that the shallow pleasures sate, but do not satisfy. You cannot go dancing for ever. Thinking people get tired of driving their cars along country roads for -thousands of miles. They want to get back to their Shakespeare. “That Is happening now. People are feeling the need for a deeper, a more spiritual life. And that is why I say that religion is very much alive to-day.”