Significant Sayings

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 30, 27 April 1934, Page 7

Significant Sayings

Archbishop of York : “We are now confronted with a turning-point in human history. Man has, through most of his existence, been under the necessity of expending the greater part of his time and energy in obtaining the bare means of subsistence. This is no longer true. And Christians must recognise that the challenge is a work of God and a challenge of God to our consciences. We are persuaded that this should be a dominant concern of religious peoples and religious organisations at this time. .The vital religious question of our age is that of relating in practice the revelation in Christ to a new phase of human history.”

Right Rev. Brandt, New South Wales Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, at Bathurst: “I don’t believe in politics in religion, but I do believe in religion in politics. It should play a great and most important part in the affairs of governments. We are on the brink of a new social order. Take for an illustration the condi-

tions prevailing today. While we have produced thousands of bushels of wheat more than we can consume, people are going about with empty stomachs, hungry for food. This breeds Communism. We don’t have to import Communists, for we are breeding them by an obsolete social order. A revolution must come. We don’t want a blood revolution; we must have a peaceful one. We must force ourselves, our religion, on our governments.”