"Influence" and the Probation Officer
| Date | 01 January 1934 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455053400101801 |
| Published date | 01 January 1934 |
| Author | Neville S. Talbot |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Probation
The Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers.
"INFLUENCE" AND THE PROBATION OFFICER.
AN IMPRESSION OF AN ADDRESS BY
THE RT. REV. NEVILLE S. TALBOT, M.C.
To the Midland Branch Conference at Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution.
AB N uncultured Irish peasant, hearing of the death
in harmony, and drawn into a unity by a fundamental
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of the late Lord Antrim, said &dquo; He was a blessed
relationship to God.
man, we had a great thought of him.&dquo;
That
AND THE PEACEMAKERS.-The divine warriors who
simple peasant had experienced some wonderful,
labour on the side of truth and right values.
intangible quality or influence possessed by the dead
All this begs a great question of God and brings us
man, of which, perhaps, Lord Antrim himself would
back to an enquiry of how we ourselves stand about it all.
have been quite unaware.
The Fall of Man : Original Sin : The Garden of
Such a quality or influence must be conceived as an
Eden : all are pictorial stories of man tangled up and
entirely spiritual force that is an essential fact in the
enmeshed with himself. The Jew wrestling with
experience of men of faith.
experience; he found himself to be in a fallen condition.
Influence, of such vital nature conveys a conception
Why ? How ? We know not. But the Truth-the
of the kinship between one’s own experience and the
Truth of God, if only it could possess us would draw us
experience of another. Rather like the hitching on
out of ourselves, as the craftsman is drawn out of him-
of a power belt in a great factory. Very different from
self in occupation with the work of his hands. But the
what we are prone to call &dquo; religion &dquo; and which may
man who would escape from self must become selfless
be only a projection of ourselves. Yet it is a force
by surrender to Christ, like the lover who has gone out
likely to be encountered in religion of the right sort.
and is surrendered to the beloved. And when he has
escaped from self he draws...
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