BETTER OFF, BUT NOT BETTER
"People are not better because they are better off. Neither social reform "nor economic reconstruction can take the place of the church with its message of redemptidn. It has been stated that the Roman Empire crashed because there were not enough good Romans to go round. Can the Church of Jesus produce enough true men to save our country? Can we inspire thinking men who will serve their age, holding their brains in trust for others? Can we raise.men who can be trusted with power, not only money power, but power of speech, of artistic insight, of inventive genius? Can we create a passion for public service that will provide loyalties, self-effacing devotion more wonderful than any economic or national system can produce? Freedom is not secured by political activity but by spiritual devotion."—Rev. W. C. Jackson, the new president of the English Wesleyan Conference. - .
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4771, 12 November 1935, Page 2
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