WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD?

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 84, 8 April 1924, Page 9

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD?

The Rev. Robertson Orr spoke in St. I re^ S ™Church on the subject, Whats Wrong with the World?" last Sunday evening. He said the twentieth century had reversed the Christian order and placed material considerations in tho forefront of its programme. Meat drink, clothing, and bodily comforts their enjoyment and their cost, wera the burden of people's conversation Everything was reduced to the terms of the material world. Those few who took no thought for meat and drink and money were regarded as madmen or hypocritical rogues. The pursuit} of these things had become a passion among us, and young people were tempted to get the wherewithal to satisfy this passion by dishonest means. The thoughtful mind was considering whether civilisation without Christ had not cursed us more than it had blessed us. A modern journalist believed a savage in New Guinea was better off than a working man in London. He might be haunted by the dread of evil spirits, but not b.r the dread of unemployment with its horrors. _ If he ' had not heard of all the enriching conveniences of civilised life he was no worse off than the London working man who heard of them al! but enjoyed none of them. Civilisation harassed us with its problems, and hardened us with its hypocrisies, aud if it robbed us of peace of mind, then our last state was vorsa than the first. Christ saw this fret of life and traced its cause to an impossible order of liv mg. So He taught men to seek the Kingdom of God first, and leave the questions of meat and drink in a sec ondary place'. There was no hardness like the hardness of trying to put first what God and Nature had put second.