RETURN TO GOD

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 154, 28 December 1936, Page 7

RETURN TO GOD

ARCHBISHOP'S APPEAL

SLACKENING OF MORALITY SEEN

FAITH & THE NATION

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received December 28, 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 27. "The year that is going can never be forgotten in our national history, but its most recent and vivid memories had better now be kept in silence," said the Archbishop of Canterbury in a broadcast address. "Let us turn from the past to the future and regard all that has happened as a call to re-establish and resettle the foundations of our national life." He proceeded to make an eloquent "recall to religion," and said that there had been unquestionably a drift from religion. God had been not so much denied as crowded out in the haste, hurry, and distraction of modern life, which brought a slackening, even a scorning, of the old standards of Chris-' tian morality. This was seen in the loosening of the ties of marriage or of , restraint upon the impulses of sex. The manifold gifts of God upon the nation | and the Empire, such as the gifts of order and freedom, would fail to fulfil their purpose unless they were rooted deep in faith. The- Archbishop said he hoped the Coronation would mark not only the beginning of a new reign but of a new return by the nation to God, a new loyalty to the King, and, above all, to the King of Kings.