THE WOULD FOR ALL

Evening Star, Issue 16822, 26 August 1918, Page 8

THE WOULD FOR ALL

ME UhOYiD GEORGE ON THE dTOBOHTS TASK. Mr I/loyd George attended the annual flower service of the Welsh Baptist Church at Castle street, Oxford street, London, on tii-ff stfterooon of 3\rr*& 23. QEte was accortv. panteci by Mm Lloyd George, has daughter, find T/ord Pontypridd, and sat -with the mh> ieter in the pulpit. Speaking in a discussion, introduced by 3Tr 2>. J. Morgan, on 'The Church and the Future,' he eaid: — I em very glad to think that the mind of the Churches, of the young people of the Churches, hus been devoted to these problems, because I feel that the great problem of the reoonstcuotion of the -world ia safer it the Churches begin to take charge of it. We have suffered in bha war, perhaps, through lack of preparation before we entered It. Do not let us make the fame mistake in peace. The mistakes we might mako through entering on peace without preparation -would be even more disastrous than the mistakes you might make by entering into war without preparation. The things that you will do will be more permanent. You will give direction and shape to things, and as the world will be very molten at that moment, it will cool down very quickly, and that shape will remain. Whatever you do 1 you must be just, just to everybody. The world has got to bo everybody's world. It j is not going to bo a world of any one class. We have aU got to live in it after the war, and it must be fit for everybody bo live in. Out of this agony of the world let us see that no deformity is bom. Militarism? jSfo. Mammonism No; nor anarchy eitheT. You have only got to look at what has happeend in other lands. The only land to which a form of peace has come ia a land which was not ready for the problems of peace. We do not want that here, so let us think of these things, and let us think of them in the atmosphere of Christianity, which means the atmosphere of brotherhood. Before this war I fought hard to sec fair play for the people from whom I have sprung. Such as I got I only got through fighting. lam going to try another way this tame. I believe that hearts have been aof tened. There is a greater sense of community. People have gone through the fiery furnace together. You all know of the three men. who went through the fiery furnace, and if they had to settle accounts when they came out I do not believe that there was any quarrel. They did it round the same table, they shared fairly, and if they nuarrelled, it was long years afterwards. We have all been in the fiery furnace, all classes, the middle classes and the lower classes, if there is such a thing. Irst us settle every account in the spirit of The Book. X«et us try it, and if we fail, if any man stands in the way, {hen we will have to light with him. We have not forgotten how to fight, but I do not believe it. ( will be necessary. You cannot have the world as it was. It was a libel on Je.su = I Christ. It was a shame upon His name. Millions of men have not fought for a world j of that kind, and let us, all those who are \ fortunate, those who have special gifts, those who have the gift of turning things into gold—some men have got it in their finger- ' , tips; it does not matter what they touch, it is gold—all who have these lucky gifts, let , us remember that there are other people less , fortunate, and deal gently and tenderly, as men who '?■«» grateful ti»t God has been | Kood to us, in paying our debt of gratitude by sharing with our brothers. That is the ' spirit in whioh we should try to start the new world—as men who have come out of 1 the fiery furnace.