NEED FOR LOYALTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17776, 9 May 1921, Page 6

NEED FOR LOYALTY.

FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY.

SUGGESTED SAFEGUARDS.

REV. F. W. YOUNG'S VIEWS.

The subject of " Loyalty" was dealt with at All Saints' Church last evening by the vicar, Rev. F. \V. Young, before a large congregation. In the course of bis sermon the preacher said :-r-

" Loyalty is one of God's great fundamentals. The three great loyalties are, loyalty to the Ilome, loyalty to the Church, loyalty to the State. Loyalty to God only consecrates all these three. By them God knits mankind together. Were God to unloose for one moment the bonds of the material universe, everything would collapse into shapeless dust clouds. Imagine then the folly and wickedness of those who would loosen the bonds of society—loyalty to the marriage bond, by which God binds the family together; loyalty to the State, by which God binds the nations together—and on which their very existence depends. Disloyalty- in the Church spells schism, the greatest sin of the Church to-day. " One reason why the Roman Communion has not always stood for loyalty is because she lias not yet solved the problem of national loyalty and submission to spiritual authority. These are perfectly clear and distinct in the New Testament. When Rome returns to the clear teaching of Peter on duty to the State, we will welcome her to Peter's high place in the reverence of Christendom. Our brethren of the extreme labour wing would to remember that loyalty is not like wages and hours and conditions of work, that may be changed, but a fundamental thing on which society rests. The State has a perfect right to safeguard her own existence by insisting that all schools shall yield willing allegiance to constituted authority—but e v ery State would do well to make loyalty easy. It is the State's duty to make wrong-doing difficult and right-doing easy. So with loyalty. " Let the State remove once and for all some of the greatest causes of unrest by instituting insurance against unemployment, insurance against sickness, insurance against old age." At the conclusion of the sermon the congregation sang the National Anthem-