NATION’S MORALITY
“New Zealand’s Gravest Hour” was the title of an address delivered to tlie members of the Palmerston North Potary Club by Pev. Gardner Miller, of Christchurch, the evangelist who is at present visiting the city. He stated that civilisation had been pushed into the background and the morals and principles for which our forbears had fought had been flattened. Morality was being treated as a joke. We were, therefore, living in very serious times. In New Zealand and England there had been great regimentation. Both political bodies in the Dominion were equally bad and every right-thinking person should see that this regimentation was squashed. Spiritually all lands were in a bad way also. The spiritual life of the communities was at a low ebb. Mr Miller was of the opinion that the world was on the verge of a great revolution, which would not necessarily be a bloody one. It was time for people to invest in humanity and not-ih institutions. They must take a long view of life, and bo prepared to give something and not look for a reward.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 6
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183NATION’S MORALITY Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 212, 7 August 1945, Page 6
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