WAR ON WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11955, 27 May 1933, Page 9

WAR ON WAR

CHURCH ENLISTED

r.VLb OF HALT TO WAR MAKERS

SHEFFIELD, Marcl’, 20,

A conference ot Christendom to cry with the collective voice of Europe and America "Halt before it is too late" to war makers throughout- the world, was advocated by Mr David Lloyd George at the thirty-eighth, National Council of the Evangelical Free Ohurche s here 011 March lo- " Nations." said Mr Lloyd George.

“are snarling and arming against each other. The intelligentsia of France, Germany and Roland aio discussing the date and scene ot another European war. Everything depends now upon the action of the Christs an clmrchos. I do not*, sou ;iuy means of anvstincc a flmd). The Bein’ R. C- Mackie, general secretary of the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain, said the growing urge toward pacifism m British educational institutions could not hut fill with admiration all who had learned from past events. The Iffiv. James Lockhart, presiding at the conference on March 14, dealt with the movement for union among the various Free 1 lmrelv bodges. “There is a growing conviction.' he said, “that, organic union must be the end toward which we strive” Mr Lock hart mentioned that Presbyterians. Congregationalists and Baptists had appointed committees to confer with one another. He expressed hopeful expectation of a happy outcome to their discussions. ,

The Rev. Dr J. 11. Ritson, formerly secretary to the British and Foreign Bible Society, said world diffusion ol the Gospel must, be through revival of religion at home which could come only by devotional study of the Scriptures.