THE ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 March 1939, Page 7

THE ROOTS OF CHRISTIANITY

“Many currents of thought have passed into the human mind in two thousand years,” points out the “'"arich ester Guardian.” in a recent article, "but it was in Palestine that a Jew founded the religion which gave Western civilisation its driving force and from which have developed those doctrines of the dignity of the human person and of equality and freedom which are largely realised to-day. Christianity cannot without ’’dilating itself—as the Nazi philosophers would have it do—escape its deep roo(- in Judaism, and it is this which brings the people of these traditions to face a common crisis and a common enemy at this time. When our stern covenanting forefathers called their children bj r Old Testament mmes and when those who left in small ships to people \vha f is now the United States followed their example they were expressing in symbol a bond between, two religions which can never be broken. It is no chance that the Nazis who contemn the human person and preach the doctrines of race alse persecute Jews and Christians • I; ke.”