Urge to Rebellion

Do not be hasty. There is an urge to rebellion in the heart of youth. Turn its power on wrongs and errors worth rebelling against. Most vices are perverted virtues, and unpleasant rebels are sometimes crusaders going in the wrong direction.

Your second temptation is secondhand thinking. People who teach in universities, and people who write books which find their way into the university reading lists, are usually authorities in some branch of learning. That does not qualify them to speak with authority on spiritual matters.

University teachers are human. They try to be honest in their thinking and teaching for the most part, but sometimes they succumb to the "last [unclear: Insrmity] of noble minds," and like to have the class before them accept everything they say. Please do not do so. I like to see von put down your pencil occasionally and look doubtful. Think with your own mind, and remember, that a philologist has authority only on philology, and is not even Infallible in that.

And docs this apply to a teacher of classics who presumes to write in this strain? Of course, except that for a generation now I have read classics, ancient history, Biblical criticism, the New Testament and Its allied literature, and the newspapers of the weary and tormented secular world, without seeing any reason to doubt the validity of the Christian assumption.

The old ISS (International Student Service) Trust Fund account of approximately £270 has been closed and the money forwarded to World University Service ((WUS) Dominion Committee in Dunedln, with the request that as much of this money as possible be spent on relief work for students in the South-East Asian area.

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Mr. J. Whitta is Board and Accommodation Bureau Officer with Mr. J. G. Hutchison in second fiddle.

The author of this article is Professor E. M. Blaiklock, Professor of Classics at Auckland University College. We regret that owing to space limitations, the article has been abridged.—Ed.