CHRISTIANS AND THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 59, 7 September 1914, Page 9

CHRISTIANS AND THE WAR

"Are Christians justified in support ing war?" was the subject of an interesting address given by Mr. R. A. Wright at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington South Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Society. Mr. Wright said that a Christian might well hesitate before supporting his country in a war of aggression, prompted by greed. A war in defence of a weaker country whose treaties and rights had been violated by her powerful neighbour might well enlist the Christians' utmost sympathy and support. An army used to safeguard justice and suppress lawlessness and violence was but the counterpart in the national sjjhere of the police in the civic. Waterloo shattered Napoleon's dream of world-dominion, and Great Britain was again assisting "in smashing the policy of world-domination long cherished by the Pan-Germanists. God was using England, declared Mr. Wright, not only tq circumvent the arrogance and avarice of a nation which aspired to the lordship of the earth, but to fulfil tho prophecy of Daniel, given in interpretation of the great image of King Nebuchadnezzar's vision. Daniel declared that there should be four universal Empires— that of Babylon, IndoPersia, Greece, and Rome — and the lifth i should be not German but the Kingdom ! of Christ, established in the day of the division of the Roman Empire into kingdoms, as represented by the two j toes of the image. Mr. H. R. Thompson sang two solos, which were greatly appreciated, Mr. Snodgrass being the accompanist. The Rev. J. Southern pre- i sided.