WORSHIP OF THE STATE

Grey River Argus, 13 August 1935, Page 5

WORSHIP OF THE STATE

AN ANGLICAN CRITICISM. (Per Press 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 ir 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 tina. authority. ’ ’ The service was attended by Lord Galway and Lady Golway. “If the tide of national absolutism is destined to sweep over the world,” said the Bishop, “then the Church wil. have t'o count the cost which the martyrs paid, and decide once again for Caesar or Christ. And surelv there will be other martyrs, too. Who can believe that those who have sought truth s*o single mindedly in science. in history, and in arts, wil' endure to exchange truth for propaganda, and to have their results prescribed to them before their investigations are be ga n ? ” __