LEAGUE WITH RELIGION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 24 September 1934, Page 2

LEAGUE WITH RELIGION

A BISHOP’S APPEAL The Bishop of Guildford, speaking at an open-air service held in the ruins of Waverley Abbey, Farnham, Surrey, said that the world was in terrible danger because no nation had any sense of security. “The dear old League of Nations” blundered on without any religion. It had no belief in God and therefore he could not find in it champions for peace and goodwill and security and order. So long as we kept our _ present idea about the League of Nations we should not get far. “Cannot we sink our little tiny differences, because they are small differences compared with the greatness of the peril that besets us?” continued the bishop. “Cannot the Church in all parts of the World, our brethren of the Nonconformist churches, of the Greek Church, and of the Roman Catholic Church, come together and manifest the fact that they are son and daughters of God? Do you think that after two years or even 12 months, if a great union of Christian people said, ‘That is the line we are going to take,” that things would not be much better than they are now? What is the good of Christians in name when in need and in truth our outlook on life recognises no power of God at work and no relations between us and Him? You can no _ more settle the terrible problems which divide nation from nation by the cleverness of statesmen than you can stamp out a great disease by neglect of science and hoping that if vou sit still long enough it will disappear.”