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Salient. An organ of student opinion at Victoria College Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 7 May 3, 1939

Dross or Gold

Dross or Gold.

And which religion are we to return to? Mr. Freeman asked this pertinent question in his opening speech for the negative; Mr. McCulloch, from voluminous notes, had attempted to define religion as embracing all beliefs, and, in a well-constructed speech, pointed out that a separation between the dross and the gold in religion must be made. Mr. Freeman naturally wanted to know which religion contained most gold and least dross; if he had to return to religion he wanted to know which system of beliefs he should embrace—would it solve our discontents if he became a Holy Roller or a British Israelite, or must he become a Christian or a dancing dervish?

Miss Justine Smith, ably supported by Mr. McMurray, in one of the most effective and pleasing speeches of the evening, supplied the answer. Mr. McCulloch and Mr. Treadwell had advocated a return to a vague sort of religion, but Miss Smith made an eloquent and convincing plea on behalf of Christianity.