No Logic In Pacifist Attitude
[Per Press Association—Copyright.] WELLINGTON, This Day
A declaration that with the furies of evil holding much sway in the world today he could not see how any Christian could logically take up a pacifist position was made by the head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand (Commissioner John Evan Smith), speaking in Wellington yesterday. ■ “I have my own special views, and I am not speaking for the Salvation Army, which, as an organisation, has given no pronouncement similar to that of other churches,” he added. Stand By Code ‘T, cannot see, however, how any Christian man. or woman can logically take up a pacifist position. Wctake on ourselves a code of principle and wrongdoing, and that means definitely in opposition to all evil fighting Hitler and his unruly gang. ‘‘They are the vilest, most wicked men the world has ever known, and every man and women is fully justified in carrying out his or her principles and endeavouring to destroy the evil which is paramount in the world today.”
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1941, Page 2
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