STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 89, 16 April 1927, Page 7

STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE.

• CHRISTIAN MESSAGE WANTED TNCKRTAIXJY IN" RELIGIOUS WOULD. •"Ibis i« a tj 1110 when the minds of many tend toward |>r-simUm. Thev cannot draw much hope from things a« th-v are. After a war to end war' Ihe nations have attained anything but permanent peace." This observation was mad.- |,\- Mr. A. 1.. Haddon, in i l u - ( ,„ 1I>( . ~f '~ | (| .;j,f address to the conference of Associated Churches of Christ. la«t evmiii". The speaker added that N'atmv .....ined to pre-, nt a mthle-- and u-.h ■«- struggle f,.r c\i-t.-,„. . i„ the .-onimcnial and industrial sphc,e there wa- much ~t the -ellishlie-s w 1,;,.), a||,,. w .,| , |„. xvo to P o to the wall, while unlv 11n- stioiie succeeded. \VIi,U was ne.de,l and needed desperately. |,y „,,,.], ~,,„,].. wa< the Christian >-..|„-i-i niii" <;,,>) man and the universe with it- h< ; ,nd oiler of victory. "11l the religious world, too. there iinncli uncertainty: need, dognm. ntua! ccrlesiasticism have h.-i their ancient power ami are felt by ninny t«. W | iur . deu.-," j Klin ted out Mr. Haddon. 'old things aie pa-sing away and new thingto take their place aie not readily avail aide. lu such a -it nation there ispeeial need for a call to go Lack to the Christ of the New Testa ment f..r in spiral ion and authority m religion. Tliibas always been the central theme <>i the message of ( hurches of ("hri-t. and with it has liitii coupled a plea to; Chri-tiali unioi:."