CRITICAL PERIOD

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 8

CRITICAL PERIOD

World’s Turmoil and Unrest EMPIRE SOLIDARITY “The world to-day is vibrant with turmoil and unrest, racked by economic chaos, and the unsatisfied selfish asspirations of mankind,” said his Excellency the Governor-General, when speaking at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon on the occasion of the visit of General E. J. and Mrs. Higgins, head of the Salvation Army, to Wellington. “Unsettled conditions prevail in China, in India, in Russia, in Central Europe, and elsewhere,” he said. “There are even, I grieve to say, threatenings of grave discord within the great British Brotherhood of Nations, to which it is our immeasurable privilege—and responsibility—to belong. Let us for our part in this highly favoured outpost of the Empire pray earnestly, in the interests of humanity at large, for continued solidarity and fraternity within the Empire, and,

by eschewing all temptation to separatism and mutual animosities advance materially the cause of peace and goodwill upon earth. The clamant needs of this critical period are unity, steadfastness, brotherly love, and a right judgment in all things, .5

“It is to the faith which we profess that we must look for these essential conditions of peace and security. ‘Like a mighty army moves the Church of God.’ We are all members of that Church- the great Catholic or Universal Church—and we all belong to that army, although we may have our separate army corps, divisions,' brigades, battalions, and companies, with their separate unit commanders. We are out to attack the same enemy,' and we all owe obedience to the same Generalissimo, the Captain of our Salvation. Let us have then an agreed plan of campaign, and. as trusted comrades, march forward abreast to the battle of life, striving each with all our might to make the world a little better for our having lived in it,” his Excellency added.