WORLD-WIDE BOLSHEVISM.
"TERRIBLE PAYS COMING."
BISHOP JULIUS'S WARNING
A terrible* calamity in tho form of ■world-wido Bolshevism, unless tho true " spirit of Christianity is to como into its kingdom again, was predicted by Bishop \ Julius when preaching at the Cathedral > >• yesterday .morning. His Lordship had ; been speaking about tho spirit of V; Christmas, how j.t was observed from a j ) material point by too manv people as a l»ddy without a soul. He spoke of tho rejection of Christ by tho Jewish people, followed bv tho fall of Jewish, nationality, and tho destruction of its people. We to-day, declared his Lordship. wore in equal peril, the shadow of a irreat danger hung over us all. Bolshevism —what did it mean? That all over the world thero was a feelinc that the great reality expressed by Christmas should be expressed in life. Th® world had been asking when was Chris- \ tinnity going to be brought into effect. . What wai? Bolshevism? It was just, that fear, that sense of the world driven ' to despair—nothing else. It to men, ignorant men. who could seo just i this: that things were not what they ought to be. They found no help, and doceended to despair, destruction, .and ruin , .
"And it ift coming, it is coming, it is coniMicr." said his Lordship, "as surely ns Christians arc unfaithful to tho Church." Wo thought 50 could stop it by maintninijisr a standing army, that in anv it.» who foreien to the_ character of British people, but it was tl'oro. and it must come till it overwhelmed our chnrelip*, our civil law unon which wo prided ourselves, and thovo was nothing left but a desert to more n mossnce from Above miicbt. and perbari? it might bo beiml. Ho knew very terrible days were coming, and, perhaps, coming very soon.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16404, 26 December 1918, Page 6
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