THE CHURCHES AND THE PEACE QUEST.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1928, Page 8

THE CHURCHES AND THE PEACE QUEST.

‘‘Humanity forgets so easily the old horrors and tragedies, and just as the grass quieklv covers the graves, so the memory of the stupendous sacrifices ot n . f,. w years ago tends to heroine din,lin'd. The Church ought to keep that lesson before the mind and conscience of t he public. Slit' oligh peihans to lake more direct action in polities than she does at present. She eight not to countenance polities which make for war. She ought to cultivate more intimate and iriendlv relationships between Christians in different countries. All there are lines of advance which some of us arc urging upon the Churches to which we belong. But to be tolcl the churches are

guilty, because men of influence and authority who called themselves Christain took the wrong road, leaves us cold. T.t is useless to blame the Church for anything unless we ourselves are prepared to take a share ol the responsibility. So many of the critics speak as though the Church were some distant object from afar. ’I be Church as a matter of far.-1, is the blessed but very mixed company of average Christian men and women.'’ —Dr Sidney Perrv. in the “Yorkshire Observer.”