DUTY OF CHRISTIAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 218, 15 September 1939, Page 3

DUTY OF CHRISTIAN.

ADDRESS BY CLERGYMAN. (From Our Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. It wa-s not fitting or right that the Church should be one of the loudspeakers of the Government, or that it should repeat rather more sentimentally the views of the man in the street, said the Rev. H. W. Newell, addressing the Wellington Optimists' Club to-day on

"Christians' Duty in the Present Crisis." The Church should have something definite and clear to say, based on its own principles.

There must be no room In the lie«u t of a Christian for any bitterness or anger of heart against any man or nation. The Christian was too deeplv conscious of his own faults to point out faults in another. Every Christian should pray for purity of heart and motive «nd keep himself in all humility before God. Since 1014 a world Christian community had arisen. There was now no important country in the world in which there was not a strong Christian Church.

The first duty of the Christian was allegiance to Christ, and thev should retain that allegiance. Many people had a fateful and terrible choice to mak<\ but the most ini[>ortant thing was f«f thein to keep their face to God.