CHURCH AND PEACE

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 January 1938, Page 7

CHURCH AND PEACE

MATE’S ADDRESS. [BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY. January 19. Presiding at the opening session of the Convocation of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury said they could not contemplate the present world situation without grave anxiety and dismay. The war in China was giving sinister warning of what any war on a wider scale would mean to civilisation. In the midst of confusion in the world, they could only hope that the British Commonwealth would prove an influence for peace, and remain on terms of friendship with all nations. There were obviously two lines of policy which ought to be followed. First, to maintain and strengthen the co-operation with the United States. Second, to do the utmost jvhile continuing the established friendship with France, to reach a friendly understanding with Germany. He wanted to see fuller and more generous recognition of the words of Hitler about his desire to do all possible to maintain peace in Europe, but at the same time, he would reiterate his question to Germany, why she alienated the sympathies of people in Britain and other countries, who were most anxious to be on friendly terms with her, by continued acts of interference with the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches there?

“ANTI-GOD" MOVEMENT

(Recd. Jan. 20. 1 p.m.). LONDON. January 19.

The Bishop of Saint Albans, at the Canterbury Convocation, said that an unofficial anti-God movement was working underground in England, from the top of the scale to the bottom. It was extraordinarily polite, not possessing the vulgarity associated with Russia, but the Church must close its ranks, and fight it.