A HINDRANCE

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1937, Page 7

A HINDRANCE

WAR PROSPECTS. SYDNEY, September 20. It would be a tragedy if Australia after her illustrious economic recovery had her national progress arrested by the fear of another war, the Rev. Geo. Cowie, said yesterday. Pessimists, with their gloomy predictions about a war to end civilisation, v ere an irritating encumbrance ho said at the Fullerton Memorial Lnuieh. “Armageddon and the doom of civilisation are still being served up to the people, despite the failure of all the ridiculous prophecies made in the last hundred years. “People Who talk about ‘signs of the times’and mystic number* in the Scriptures are reading into the Bible things that are not there. “Such irresponsible talk fosters the war spirit, and creates fear.” Australia could do with a spring cleaning, the Rev. T. McVittie said at the Paddington Presbyterian Church last night. “Jt would be a good thing if, at the Federal elections, the electors c'-uid scrub the mud and filth from . partypolitics, ” he added. “The scrubbing-brush could nl-o be used on certain evil influences which have fastened on to sport and on to the Church. “Christ died to establish a united Church, not a denominational ism, in which one section tbrowns mud at another.” At St. Luke’s Chin-cli <! Engl; ml, yesterday, the Rev. Ernest Cameron said the Church couil not hope for men’s allegiance if she stood asum and declared that economics were not her concern. Unless Christianity could make the world a better place to live in and could offer men someth’ag for the development of personality, it could im: hope to win humanity for Christ he added. A new commandment “Thou .-halt not he found out,” was observed by many people in business, the Rev. i*. T. Smith said, at the Huristone Park Baptist Church. “Scores of dishonest deals, under the guise of smart business, are a blot on commercial life. “The ethics of some business men is that anything is honest if they can get away with it.” Australia was being swept by * wave of godlessness, the Rev. J Faulkner said, at the Leichhardt Presbyterian Church. “The signs of it are selfishness and greed, breeding poverty, increase in '••rime, preparations for war, and a breakdown in a large number of marriages.”