Virtue in Sternness

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 48, 26 February 1943, Page 4

Virtue in Sternness

“We call for Christian Order that we may have Christian liberty,” said the Archbishop of New Zealand, speaking at AJI Saints’ Church, Palmerston North, last evening. “It is quite true that the word ‘order’ has a note of sternness about it. But is not that just what our age lacks? A prominent loader said New Zealand needs more kindness and truthfulness and it will be all right. Kindness is a splendid virtue but as a recent writer observes, its danger is that it becomes softness. And so often like charity it begins at home. War brings us face to face with the need for tho sterner virtues of courage, loyalty, patience and discipline. Without these the fabric of society will decay. And these arc traditional Christian virtues; kindness will not take their place. Our campaign for Christian Order docs strike this note. Wo have no easy way to preach, no way of by-passing tho Cross, but a call to be heroic in men and women, in Church and State. There must be Christian Order in personal life, in church life, in society and in the State.”

N.Z.’s Largest Professional Body It is believed that the New Zealand Society of Accountants, with a membership of 3130 (an increase of 86 during the past year), is the Dominion’s largest professional body. In full-time service with the armed forces are 895 members, nearly 30 per cent, of the total. Wellington is in the lead with 1045 (including 156 in the northern part of the province); Auckland has 831 (including 132 in South Auckland); Canterbury lias 490 (including 64 in South Canterbury); Otago has