"SPIRITUAL ADVANCE."
Commenting on the appeal to '"spiritual advance," issued in January by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in which the heads of 30 national communions, with an aggregate membership of 27,000,000 joined, the "New York Times" says: "It is as tlie sound in the tops of the mulberry trees summoning spiritual forces to go forward. It is as if they were called to fight the hosts encamped in the Valley of Rephaim—which is for us the Valley of Depression. Emphasis," it adds, "is first upon a renewed spiritual life' for the individual, but that must lead straight out into the great social issues of the day, not away from them, and must make us think of them in spiritual terms. The church must stand above any politician or economic partnership, but they cannot be indifferent to the spiritual values of our economic or social order." The "New Messenger" (New York) also comments on the appeal, and says that there is a growing realisation in America that national and international problems are primarily spiritual.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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