IF CHRIST CAME
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DURING GENERAL STRIKE. WHAT WOULD HE HAVE SAID? MR. LLOYD GEORGE CAUSES A STIR.. by cable —press association —copyright. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. LONDON, June 27. Mr. Lloyd George, in a remarkable speech at the Welsh Baptist Chapel in London, recalled the late Mr. A\. T. Stead’s “If Christ Came to Chicago.” Mr. Lloyd George declared that if Christ had come to London during the general strike, His utterances would certainly have been excluded from the British Gazette. Probably the 'Home Secretary would have had Christ watched as a dangerous character, preaching a doctrine subversive to our institutions. Probably the next edition of the Gospels, in the twenty-first century, would not be published in the form of the Disciples’ recollections, hut from notes by the police attending Christ’s I addresses. I Probably, owing to his support of k the appeal for conciliation, Christ ft would have been excluded from the ■ Liberal Shadow Cabinet. B All Christ’s doctrines were revoluW tionaxy, subversive, and disintegrat- ' ing.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 June 1926, Page 11
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