GLOOMY RELIGIONS
3.30 P.M. EDITION
STATEMENT AT FESTIVAL. PEOPLE WANDERING IN DOUBT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received September (j, 12. 20 p.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 6. “Our world to-day is full of gloomy religions. They are erecting a bander between men and God/’ declared Father Lockington, head of the Riverview College, Sydney, when speaking at a great gathering in the City Town Hall at the Eucharistic Congress festival. He added: “As a result of these gloomy religions, millions of ordinary people are wandering in doubt or in the valley of despair, going down in a morass of materialism. Most people look upon religion as a depressing thing and a perverter of human life and upon ministers as ‘killjoys l .’ This conception of religion is very prevalent, and from the point of view of the man in the street is quite right. The position, therefore, must be faced. Men died in millions some time ago in the cause of liberty. Yet you have less of it today than ever.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 239, 6 September 1928, Page 2
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