THE CHURCH AND POLITICS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 13 August 1932, Page 11

THE CHURCH AND POLITICS.

SO TSE SDIJOtt 0» THE PHE3S Sir,—With reference to Mr Nash's recent address on the part the Church Fhould play in politics, may I say that I have been associated with ministers of the Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist Churches, and with the Sal vatian Array. They, the ministers, have been perplexed, puazled, at their wits end, to touch the hearts of the people, who Bavo mad© material wealth, pleasure, ease, and self their god. It needed a slump to make them realise to W horn thev owe their all. I knew personally two* Methodist ministers who resigned from their churohos because the people would not allow them to preach Christianity. Then another minister said, at a lecture on unemployment and distress, that in that part of the country wo had no idea what poverty meant. He suggested that every farmer in that -district should take a destitute- child for the winter month 1 !. Ho supposed often food was thrown -away-that would nourish a child, but so far the suggestion has met with no response. A minister can only deliver a message. The application of the principles of Christianity i« in the hands, largely, of his hearevs: —Yours, etc., A METHODIST MEMBER. Darfieß August 12th. 193i>.