WAR AND CHRISTIANITY.
Sir Thomas Jnskip, the Minister of Defence in the Home Government, says in "The Pathfinder," in answer to the question, should a Christian fight? "Yes, in some cases." There is a great deal in the New Testament, he says, that condemns cruelty, selfishness, savagery, hatred, and a number of other sins—for sins they were, whether committed by a soldier or a pacifist, but there is not a word to suggest that a Christian may not be a soldier. The centurion of Capernaum was commended as giving a supreme proof of faith in God, and it was to him inconceivable to suppose that if he had belonged to a Godclishonouring profession, there, would have been no hint or word to that effect from our Lord. In his opinion, to light a spiritual war with carnal weapons was wrong, but, to bear arms to defend that 'Which was God-given—home, family, neighbour, country—was, ho believed, a true and noble expression of Christianity.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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