AN ADDRESS GIVEN BEFORE THE LEAGUE OF THE EMPIRE
On July 16th, 1916 by Fr Nikolai Velimirovich, Ph.D.
(Now St Nikolai Velimirovich - Canonised 2003)
"Nature takes sufficient care
of our individualistic sense,
leaving to Education the care
of our panhumanistic sense."
of our individualistic sense,
leaving to Education the care
of our panhumanistic sense."
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
If we do not want war we must look to the children. There is the only
hope and the only wise starting point. It is not without a deep
prophetic significance that Christ asked children to come unto Him. In
all the world-calamities, in all wars, strifes, religious inquisitions
and persecutions, in all the hours of human misery and helplessness, He
has been asking, through centuries, the children to come unto Him. I am
sure, if anybody has ears for His voice to-day, amidst the thunderings
of guns and passions and revenges, one would hear the same call: Let the
children come unto Me!—Not kings and politicians, not journalists and
generals, not the grown-up people, but children. And so to-day also,
when we ask for a way out of the present world-misery, when we in profundis
of darkness to-day ask for light, and in sorrow for to-morrow ask for
advice and comfort, we must look to the children and Christ.
