CHURCH'S AUTHORITY.
PRESENT-DAY TASK
MAINTENANCE OF TRUTH
(Press Assn) WELLINGTON, July 15. Reference to recourse to gambling in raising patriotic funds was made by the Bishop of Wellington (Rt. Rev. H. Holland) when addressing the Diocesan Synod, which opened to-day. "My experience in the last lew montlis makes me stronger than ever in my conviction that one of the great objectives to Which the Churches must address themselves is the elimination of the gambling spirit from the heart of our people," the Bishop declared. "Isn't the real romance of money to be found far more truly in the widow's mite or in the breaking of the alabas r ter box of very precious ointment thaty in the bottle of whisky won in a raffle?" , ~ Speaking of the Church's leadership, the Bishop said it must set itself to win the world around it back to God. To the Church was committed the immense responsibility of maintaining in a world in danger of losing them the imperishable truths which, through its means, God had planted in the souls of men. The Church must witness bravely and constantly to a great ideal, the nature and destiny of which the world would never have known but for the life and death of Our Lord. When war conditions ceased to exist the Church's voice on behalf of the human soul must be heard above all the competing voices.
Meanwhile it was the duty and
glory of every Christian to seek lrom the Unseen strength for refusing at any cost to allow the State to determine what was good and what was evil, or to dominate its citizens by man-made formulas.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 6
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275CHURCH'S AUTHORITY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 6
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