REMARKABLE SPEECH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 June 1926, Page 5

REMARKABLE SPEECH

BY MR LLOYD GEORGE

“IF CHRIST lIAD COME TO LONDON”

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, June 27. ■Mr Lloyd George in a remarkable speech at llie Welsh Baptist Chapel, London recalled Stead's “If Christ came to Chicago.” iMr Lloyd George declared that if Christ had come to London during the general strike, His utterances' would certainly have been excluded from the British Gazette. Probably the Home Secretary would have had Christ watched as a dangerous character preaching doctrines subversive to our institutions. Probably the next edition of the Gospels in the twenty-first century would not be published from the Disciples’ recollections but from notes by police attending his addresses. Probably owing to His support of the Primate’s appeal for conciliation Christ would have been excluded from the Liberal shadow Cabinet. All Christ’s ddatrines were revolutionary, subver : sive, and disintegrating;