A RESURGENCE
EVILS RETURN
BUT WILL BE COMQUERED
"We are' beholding a resurgence of many of the evils which blighted human life in the.age in which Jesus was born," said the president of the Methodist Conference (the. Rev. . ,W. Walker) in his inaugural address last night. "Then, as now, life was cheap, cities w.ere crowded, children were unwanted. Enormous wealth existed alongside the direst. poverty. Fortunes were spent in banqueting and gambling. The State was deified as a god and worship was centred, in the emperor. All manner of strange pnilosophies arid cults sprang up like fungi on ■an autumn morning. Seething corruption undermined the moral, and spiritual life of the people. Nowhere could any.. ray of light t- seen. It was in that dark period of the world's history that Jesus Christ, the Light, of the, .World,, founded His, Church and commissioned His disciples to go into all. the world and preach the Gospel."
Good had triumphed over evil through the establishment of the Christian Church, he added, and it would triumph again if the churches were, steadfast.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 6
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179A RESURGENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1942, Page 6
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