RELIGION AND POLITICS
AN APPEAL TO CHURCHES. J { ALOOFNESS CONDEMNED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. c (Reed. 10.5 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 13. < Speaking at the Lord Mayor's recep- * tion to him, Dr. H. C. Lees, Anglican * Archbishop of Melbourne, dealt with \ politics and religion. He said that a city t could not be great without religious influ- 1 ence. By that he did not mean religious interference. He thought that church j councils and other religious bodies were very often, in their attitude toward muni- ( cipal affairs, a shade too peevish and ( a shade too suspicious. He concluded by j 1 saying that unless the Church was pre- ! ' pared to throw itself into the scheme of ' things in a self-sacrificing way that ] ' showed that it did not merely exist to i ' sing hymns on Sunday and then to wait ' for next Sunday to sing more hymns, then it was not much good. If it gave nothing better than that, then it was not worth > having at aIL
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18116, 14 June 1922, Page 7
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