CHURCH AND STATE
A BISHOP’S WARNING
[PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRISTCHURCH, August 12.
A warning against a tendency which he claimed to exist even in New Zealand for the State to develop into the supreme authority over the minds and consciences of its members, was given by Bishop West-Watson, in a sermon in the Cathedral yesterday.
He said that he was told the statement “outside the Church there is no salvation,’’ was being replaced by a new creed, that “outside the State there is no salvation.” Men found themselves in a new world where again as in the days of Nero, the State was in various countries being enthroned as the final authority. The service was attended by Lord Galway and Lady Galway. “If the tide of national absolutism is destined to sweep over the world," said the Bishop, "then the Church will have to count the cost which the martyrs paid, and decide once again for Caesar or Christ. And surely there will be other martyrs, too. Wlio can believe that those who have sought truth so singlemindedly in science, in history, and in arts, will endure to exchange truth for propaganda, and” to have their results prescribed to them before their investigations are began?”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1935, Page 2
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