MODERN WORLD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 43, 20 January 1936, Page 10

MODERN WORLD.

“NO CLEAR VISION.”

BISHOP BURGAIANN’S ADDRESS

The Bishop of Goulburn, N.S.W. (Dr Burgmann), addressing a conference of the Australian Student Christian, Alovement recently, said that the world was without any clear vision of its destiny. Europe, which had hitherto been the leader of the world, had lost its nerve. The age of liberalism and individual enterprise was rapidly passing, but there were . signs of growing sanity, signs that the modern man did not wish to die. It would be a desperately difficult thing for man to recover quickly enough to escape disaster. The federation of the States of Europe would he a first step towards the rationalisation of the world. The material task of reconstructing the world was the great spiritual challenge of the moment. Social reconstruction must come first. If Christians could not rise above the world, and show how to use the vital forces in the world to-day in the Christian way, they were really irrelevant.

Air Kenneth Henderson, of Western Australia, in his address to the conference, maintained that each age had the right to its own inspiration from God, and said that they must seek present inspiration for problems which went be.fond the scope of the New Testament. The Word of God came to those who were wrestling faithfully with the problems of their own day.