MOBILISATION OF FAITH

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 1 July 1939, Page 3

MOBILISATION OF FAITH

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER S COMMENT “Those who, it has been said, carry the weight of great responsibilities today can for the present see no other way but to arm this country in its own defence, but we recognise, as you have pul it, that the troubles of to-day cannot In cured by arms or armaments. We have to go further and deeper than that, and I have no doubt that there will be a wide response to your Call to Prayer,” said Mr Neville Chamberlain in addressing the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland at Edinburgh. When the Prime Minister referred lo the many encouraging letters which his wife received the Assembly broke into loud cheers. “The letters,” "Mr Chamberlain went on to say, “come from people who are not known to us; of many different creeds, even of different races. I have been greatly struck by the number of the writers who tell us that they pray daily for the success of our efforts for peace. The fact is there are many forms of religion but there is one tiling common to them all. and that is faith. It is that faith, that conviction of rightness to certain things, which constitutes the spiritual force which cannot be measured in physical terms. It seems to me there is a task for the spiritual force, to foster and to encourage it, laj down and keep clear before the people the funJamental principles which must govern human relations. If they do that there may well be the ultimate power which it was said in that , same Call to Prayer will eventually lead the nations and their rulers and their religions to he good neighbours to one another.”