WORLD PROBLEMS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 12, 25 October 1949, Page 5

WORLD PROBLEMS

“NO SOLUTION BUT CHRISTIAN ONE.” WELLINGTON, Oct. 24. It was the efforts of individuals rather than’ of masses that could find the solution to the critical situation in which civilisation found itself to-day, said the Rt. Hon. W. Nash, as member of Parliament for Hutt, opening the new Epuni Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon. Mr Nash quoted the historian Arnold Toynbee as estimating that 14 civilisations before the present one had lived and disappeared. “We are probably at one of the most critical pointer in all history; and if we do not find the right road out of, our present difficulties in the next half-century or so our civilisation may well join those of the past,” Mr Nash said. “In fact, if we do not find a way to control what man has developed—atomic fission and bacterial warfare — civilisation might not just pass into history but disappear in its entirety.” He had recently read a number , of books, dealing with the present state of the world, and he had been impressed that the authors, all of them profound thinkers, had come to the conclusion that there was no solution to the situation but the Christion one.