DOUGLAS CREDIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 202, 28 August 1933, Page 8

DOUGLAS CREDIT.

'THE CHURCH'S OPPORTUNITY' In support of the Douglas social credit movement, the second of a series of meetings under the heading of "Christianity and the Crisis was held in Scots Hall yesterday afternoon. The speakers were Rev W. W. Averill and Mr. A. C. A. Sexton. Mr. J. A. C. Allum presided. In the course of his address, Mr. Averill quoted the words of G.. K. Chesterton- ' Christianity has not failed. It has been found difficult and left untried." In the past 100 years, said Mr. Averill, the world had rejected Christianity in favour of scientific humanism. Man, through science, was gaining control over the forces ot nature, but he had not shown that he was fitted to use that power. The manufacture of poison gas, the possibility of bacteriological warfare, and experiment with the " death ray" were all proof of that. There was also the growth of industrial secularism, which, too, rejected Christianity, resulting in the power of a few over the many and disregarding of the human factor in industry as something not worthy of notice. The Christian Church had never before had such an apportunity as it had to-day, said Mr. Averill. It was not sufficient merely to state the principles on which people must live._ It was necessary to see that the economic system responsible for the faults of the people was first put right. He was supporting the Douglas social credit movement because he believed it' represented those principles which Christianity demanded. It was applied Christianity. The desire of bankers to build up a huge national debt and the frenzy of industrial competition were two of the main causes of war, said Mr. Sexton. With the adoption of Douglas social credit they would be removed. Each country had to put its own house in order and not wait for something to happen overseas.