CHRISTIAN ORDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 29, 3 August 1942, Page 4

CHRISTIAN ORDER

HUTT VALLEY: CAMPAIGN

"We must rethink the Christian message, we must proclaim it to the world, ami we must live it," said the Yen. Archdeacon W. Bullock, m his addresses to Lower Hutt and Petone audiences yesterday at the opening the Hutt Valley of the compaign lor Christian Order. The message of the campaign was. he said-, a message of today; it was not old and hoary, but always fresh and new, God was speaking through the events of today as he did of old. The message must also be one for the outsider and not only for the individual himself; it must not be confined to church or Sunday, but must be lived in a workaday world. - - The Christian had to turn the world upside down. ' There was an inverted scale of values. The true order was God, man, things, and .money, each serving the one: above.- ~ The world had inverted- that order. ..■--- Mr. H. Wadman,.who also spoke at each place, said we must * get. away from the idea that the war would solve any problems. The western democracies were.seeking wealth, pleasure, and ease, and the dictator .nations power; each must learn that selfsacrificing service was the; only ideal of life. The ideas of '?will«it pay? and "what will I get out of it?'* had to be abolished. We had -to «-tad : .a new basis for society, and for, that; w«cneeded the inspiration of the-Christian gospel and the ideals of, the^New^TestamAt "Lower Hutt:Mr&-^ the Mayoress,, on;.behalt: of :Mx. Andrews and the civic authorities,r.delivered an inspiring message, .... At each place the ministers,, of the various co-operating churches-were on the platform and took part in "the camThe chair was taken at Lower-Hutt by the Rev. F. P. Parker, and at Petone by the Deputy Mayor, Councillor H. Green. Musical items were- given a,t each place by the League of Mothers' choir, and the Salvation Army ;Band provided the accompaniment-to the hymns. . . "*;;: