WEALTH AND POWER

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 8, 11 January 1943, Page 3

WEALTH AND POWER

When War Ends In Victory For United Nations ARCHBISHOP LOOKS AHEAD Rec. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 10. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple, spoke at St. Martins-in-the-Fields yesterday on wealth and power. He said: "When the war ends :in victory for the United Nations, our power, with that of our Allies, will be immense. It will be of immense importance that we recognise it; and accept the responsibility it involves, and that we dedicate our power to the loving purposes of God for all His children.

In our country, he added, we had escaped, to a large extent, from the corruption which might have come from the power entrusted us, not so much because we had dedicated the power, as that we had hardly noticed it. What our neighbours complained of was, that being possessed of so great power, we had not thought how we should use it." Dr. Temple said he supposed Britain's record was less satisfactory in regard to wealth than to power, for there had been a great deal of avarice. Britain had been learning surely that the evils which arose from corruption had their origin in power and wealth.

Social and economic evils could never be solved on that level, he asserted, although they might be mitigated. They could never be cured except by a new sense of responsibility for power and wealth by a new direction given us by faith in Christ.