PRATERS FOR PEACE
Sir,—We read in “The Press’’ to-day that the civic authorities of Christchurch have arranged for regular monthly civic * services on Sunday afternoons to offer prayers for peace. Any movement for getting our nation on its knees to God has our warmest commendation, hut we would suggest that the fit and proper thing to pray for nt i these gatherings is not peace but victory. Peace we can have' at any time by giving up our tremendous struggle, but the peace we should thus obtain, or from anything else but victory;, is not the kind of peace that would endure or deserve to do so. • An: Allied vlctory, on the other hand, wUI-iproduce a stable peace founded on-:that* Christian World-order foreshadowed in Mr Anthony Eden’s re-cent-official utterance, and in the Mal-vern*.-Conference on economics. Victory/ therefore,; is logically what we should'pray for.—Yours, etc.,. BRITfSH-ISRAEL WORLD FEDERA•HON; ChristchQrch Branch. ' July 9, 1941. . ___
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23378, 11 July 1941, Page 10
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