A DAY OF PRAYER

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 10

A DAY OF PRAYER

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—ln connection with the desire o£ the Archbishop of New Zealand tliat the churches of the Dominion observe Sunday, ■ MjrrWffi, as a day of prayer for the world situation, I quote this impressive passage from an editorial in the "Irish Times":— "Is it conceivable that faith and prayer should reveal .to a whole world, now questing hopelessly for happiness, incalculable and eternal sources of happiness? To God all things are possible, and our century may see a world in which Christ will be the Master not merely of some private lives, but of all public affairs. If, and when, that day comes, it will settle every problem of polities and industry. The hatred and uncharitableness which now degrade . . . politics could not survive, for one instant, the touchstone of the Sermon on the Mount."

Of equal significance is the paragraph printed in your Saturday's" issue under the marginal heading, "Editors and Religion," from "The Spectator":— . -

"The first leader in . last Monday's 'Times' has not attracted the comment I should have expected. To,my-mind it was a most remarkable and significant^ article, such as I never remember haying^seen in that or any other paper. For it was in effect a searching and intimate sermon — not an essay on abstract religion, but something personal and vital —fearlessly and -unfalteringly penned.1 'We can but guess at the events before us. But at all events if we choose we may be sure of meeting them strengthened by an eternal Power and guarded by a Love that never changes.' Has a 'Times' leader ever ended with words like that before?"

If coming events east their shadows before, then- these utterances from the great Irish and English dailies are of extraordinary interest, and when a great statesman like Mussolini says that "Life and life more abundantly 13 the only true and worthy goal of man" and that "considerations of the spirit" in economic conferences would bring Success instead of failure, then we can hope, that in spite of the dark night through which we are passing, the dawn of a new day is close at hand.—l am, etc.,

W.F.K.

Wellington, March 16. >