LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS.
They ought to ask, not chiefly what they wanted of God, hut what God .wanted, of them, said the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang, in a recent address. Could they doubt that out of this vast upheaval God meant that something should come greater and deeper even than the rescue of the world from the Nazi spirit? Was He not calling them to gird up their loins for the quest of a better country, a better world not only* one beyond space and time, but here and now? He knew that the phrase “a better world” brought back the bitter memory of the failures of high hopes and wishes of what was to come, after the last war. /But those hopes and wishes were right. What was wrong was that hope did not become purpose, and wish came short of will, and the vision faded because it was too vague. They dared not let that failure turn them off the road. They must start again, with a clearer vision of the goal, and a more resolute will to seek it. The goal must be nothing less than a true Christian society making this common life which all shared really and truly Christian.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 41, 28 November 1940, Page 4
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