OUR CIVILISATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 207, 1 September 1908, Page 5

OUR CIVILISATION.

"CANNOT LAST MUCH LONGER."

BISHOP JULIUS AND SOCIAL

TURMOIL

[iftOMOtrß CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH; Aug. 31. ■;\ Preaching f Avonside Church. 2as£ evening from the text "Am I my brother's keeper?" his Lordship Bishop Julius; referred to theevidence of widespread /social turmoil throughout the worldj and asked if anyone could \ conscientiously say i?hat our civilisation was a Christian civilisation, . Certainly there was stone. Christianity in it, but our civilisation was not a Christian thing which the Almighty set forth iand desired to hay©! in the world. They saw that civilisation, breaking down' all round them,j! and men vainly endeavouring- to prop it up. Our present civilisation .>was'. doomed: Great changes must oome.. It might be in the mercy of God tihai' those changes would 7be brought about by Christian- peoplesj in the f acte< of the; .rising, of the great masse^i The jprea-f erit, ■: .fciyili'sation,.-. cQuld;^ndf.,:'s.tana;;^P'^; jttiany years^ ■ Gwt-knew'what;' j' wotted,;. t£^ef: - : B]l'aitjei: $'-;: ■ -.Jl^Ettiiy' ;f 6ar«d- ;>-trJ|i© \ I change^:bu^; sl<ywly/^ge py; ' '&gjeij{ &$& wfta;;. working $ut his own. purjiose 1 bringing his Kingdotn nearer.1 y:T^&us; wast;'their part in "the changes o6niii|g .to the world? {It niight not Cbe> that' thejChurch would be ablei td lead ibr; direct. The Church ought; nos $orlbfi lagging behind,, jbut 'should' be-stand-ing side by side with;:}shs' inj^ja m'h'Oi wer<B going on and <ito-:vin^Ke;'.^oaS^'«' history. It ifw.as: vonly.; .by :{ .that iineans^ that the full .benefits' of ".the change' *ould be realised. v' ... ."■'■.•'■•••n