Page:Gandhi - Young India, Viking Press, 1924-1926.pdf/23



It is not without much hesitation that I resume the editorship of Young India. I do not know whether my health can yet sustain the energy required for conducting the paper. But I cannot foresee. I can only dimly understand God’s purpose in bringing me out of my retirement in Yerowada. In taking up the editorial control of Navajivan and Young India I am following the Light as far I see it.

Nor have I any new message to deliver to the reader. I had hoped for release by an act of a Swaraj Parliament and to be able to take my humble share in serving Free India. That was not to be.

We have yet to attain freedom. I have no new programme. My faith in the old is just as bright as ever if not brighter. Indeed one’s faith in one’s plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

Though therefore so far as my mind can perceive, there will be no new method or policy developed in the pages of Young India, I hope they will not be stale.