Article November 27, 1965 Issue

Signs of the Times

Arnold J. Walker

The Natal Mercury

Rev. Arnold J. Walker, Superintendent The Methodist Church of South Africa in a column of The Natal Mercury
Durban, Natal, South Africa

The world is full of small people, not physically small, but small in outlook and spirit. Their mental approach to life is hedged in and hindered by their tradition, and they interpret every experience, not by what is right, but by what they want. They cannot see beyond the gratification of their own desire.

Linked with smallness of mind is narrowness of spirit, for the one is productive of the other. Such a spirit affirms its own lightness, often in an aggressive and antagonistic way. . . .

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