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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16117, 23 January 1918, Page 9

During a sermon on peace at Albury (New fcioutli Wales) oil Sunday week, tho Rev. C. J. Bazeley, 8.A.,*0f Sydi>ew, said Ensiland was not in a condition for peace, and would not be so until she reached the humble spirit that indicated national dependence upon the Almighty, individual character had degenerated both in England and-Aus-tralia, until the stage had been reached when it might be asked in all sincerity whether either country could really, in tho general make-up of its people, claim to be Christian. In Sydney they would on Sundays find the trams crowded with people bound not for worship, but for the pleasure resorts. The degeneracy of the race was further exemplified by the class of Sunday reading matter that was issued and bv the tone> of tho theatre. It might be said by those who had studied the decline of higher morality in the Empire that organised Prus6ianism could not be a greater evil than the class of civilisation that at present obtained in'the Empire through the departure from 'Christian principles, but God forbid that such a thing could really be saia of tliem. The most trvmg period for the Empire would he the days of reconstruction after victory was secured, for even victory would bring its anxieties if in approarhing the days of peace the British people did not more dearly cherish the teachings ol Christianity.