WAR REPUDIATION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 4

WAR REPUDIATION

i FREE appeal to world. DISARMAMENT and end to aerial WARFARE. U P. A. by Elec. T«L Copyright (liec. April 11, 4.50 p.tn.) LONDON) April 11. •Following the Rev. I. W. Norwood’s address, yesterilay, the Free Church Assembly passed the foK owing resolution: “War is contrary to the mind of Christ; and God milled its abolition.' The Assembly calj. s 0n the Free Churches to give their utmost support to the League, and press for* disarmament and appeals to eliurche.™ throughout the world to resist nationalism and urge Governments to totally abo/.ish aerial warfare.’’ Urging that there is no alternative for the churches of the world than a complete and final repudiation of wn r Dr F. W-. Norwood, minister of th<? Cffty Temple, in his presidential address to the National Free Church Assembly on Wednesday, dramatically exclaimed: “It would b e tetter that Christianity harl a.- blood-red sunset with almost certain resurrectionj than that it ' should again posture ' before is Lord giving him thanks for an ■exhausted end when it came, anti calling it peace. “If militarists took the world into another shambles, hone would ae more surprised, than they at the effects of the upheaval. Not for ever Will men go like sheep to the daughter at the behest of the blind. They will aUy themselves with other sheep and make an Inquisition of the false shepherds who lead them astray.”