CHURCHES AND THE NATION
"TREY HAVE LOST GRIP AND POWEK." The Kev. AV. B. Selbie, in his presidential address to the animal council of the Evangelical Free Churches at the City 'J.'emple on March Vi, said there was no denying the fact that the churches had lost grip and power. They did not represent more than a.' fraction of the community, and they had almost ceased to exerciso any direct influence on the policy of the nation. "The modern man," lie added, "has no uso whatever for our evasions, reservations, and traditionalism, and we must shako ourselves free of all these tilings if we are (o make the dry hones of our religion live."
A. resolution was passed by the council supporting the Government's appeal for economy, urging pastors to encourage, and where possible to organise, thrift and war-saving. Principal A. E. Garvio said there is a shameful waste going on in our country in the use of tobacco. "I do not begrudge the man in the trench/' he said, "the consolation of a cigarette, but what I object to is that men Rt lion:* should go about with cigarettes or pipes always in (heir months."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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196CHURCHES AND THE NATION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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