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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 4. April 23, 1947

[Introduction]

With the first term half over, SCM members can look back with pleasure on several functions which have started off the year. First, came the Students' Opening Service at St. John's Presbyterian Church, preceded by a well-attended tea in the Womens' Common Room. In the evening Rev. M. Sullivan (Chaplain to SCM at VUC) gave the address at the student service and spoke of the necessity for Freshers to integrate their Christian faith with the new knowledge which they would gain during their University careers.

He warned them of two things—firstly, that within a year they might become hard-boiled sceptics but this would not mean that eternal things had been shaken; more probably it would mean that they had lost a woefully inadequate faith. Secondly, he pointed out, if we believe Christ to be the light of the world, then we must accept truth by whomsoever it is discovered and whatever the consequences. "We believe," he concluded, "that Christ can interpret this complex world for us. Can you therefore make this faith your own?"