OUTSPOKEN SERMON

Evening Star, Issue 21080, 18 April 1932, Page 6

OUTSPOKEN SERMON

POLICE AND THE HEW. GUARD A “CORRUPT GOVERNMENT" Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 18. (Received April 18, at 11 a.m.) At the Pitt Street Congregational Church the Rev. T. E. Ruth gave an address on ‘ The Police and the New Guard.’ He asked: “Ifit is the duty of the police to obey the orders of cor-| rupt government, what then ? The police are all right, but their masters, with their warped idea of justice, their apparent protection of • Communists, their animosity to loyalists, their Sc ict legislation, their tin hare scandals, and their policy' of default and repudiation—these political masters of the police, I say, are all wrong. The right of criticism is necessary to public morality. It is a common right, and if the police are employed by their masters to destroy it, it must be guarded by others. For months I have been amazed at the supine surrender by the citi-ons of this state to a series of immoral political actions;” The Rev. Mr Ruth concluded: “ There is sufficient man power in the New Guard if consecrated to the cause of Christ and the cause of -the State to save New South Wales.”