PERIL OF THE WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 205, 29 August 1921, Page 4

PERIL OF THE WORLD.

LIVING IN FEAR. AFRAID OF "SOMETHING." I -1 want you to notice this." said the I Rev. VV. G. Monckton, in the course of a sermon in St. Peter's Church. Takapuna. on Sunday evening. "The world is living in a state erf fear. We do not know what we are afraid of. but it is quite easy to see that the whole world is afraid of something. There is an underlying fear of revolution, there is an underlying fear of other countries. No matter where, you go, you find it: it is tliere. Now there was the same fear ever Europe at the time of the French revolution, i!>efore what was called the industrial revolution. Tower in those days was in the hands of the landed classes. In England the tenets of the ' French revolution made no headway, I nor did they in certain divisions o-f France, where, the landed classes felt they had a duty to their tenants to protect thetn and"look after them. They were spared. Now look at Russia. Their i landed classes recognised no duties at all. The Grand Dukes looked upon the peasants as serfs or slaves. They were not spared. The Russians tried to put in place of the rule of the landed classes the rule of the labouring class, and it failed. The freedom of Italy was accomplished not by one man but by three. Maximes, the Cavours. the Garibaldis, with the army: and Cavour, the brain of the movement. If we are to free the world from the thraldom of terror we must have all three working—the Maximes, the Covours, the Garibaldis. The ll.ussia.ns failed because they thought their Oa.ribaJ.dis could d<> it without the others."'