A CHRISTIAN REVOLUTION.
The war of 1914-18 might have settled many things. It settled nothing, says the "Church Times.” The idealism of the armies was. destroyed by the short-visioned national selfishness of the men who made the peace treaties. There has never been real peace in Europe since 1919; only resentment, fear, suspicion and hatred. Now the devil’s brew has boiled over, as it was bound to do. "Whatever may happen, things will never be again wliaf they have been in the last yars. If any good whatever is to come out of evil, this must be a real deep religious conviction, and not the mere repetition of smooth sentences. Europe may be destined to he battered into destruction. Then the work of reconstruction must begin, and something must be created more seemly, more just, more Christian than any social system that man has hitherto contrived to devise. Wars always beget revolution. It is for the Church to use, with unfailing persistence and Tinbroken faith, all the spiritual strength with which it is endowed to see to it that the next 3’evolution is a Christian revolution. If that is secured, the suffering and sorrow will not have been in vain.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 32, 17 November 1939, Page 4
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