CRUSADE AGAINST WAS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19389, 26 July 1926, Page 10

CRUSADE AGAINST WAS.

SUPPORT FOR MOVEMENT. RESOLUTION BY CLERGY. [BY TELEGRAP^.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.]! WELLINGTON. Sunday. The Public Questions Committee of the Presbyterian Church, through its chairman, the Rev. Dr. ©ibb, recently received a communication from Dr. Galick and Dr. Macfarland, of the Federal Council of Churches of the United States, containing information of a crusade against war, and asking the New Zealand churches to fall into line. A similar-com-munication was received from the World Alliance for Eromoting International Friendship Throughout Churches. The PublioaQuestions Committee instructed the chairman to call a meeting of representatives of all Wellington churches to con r sider the matter. In response to the invitation to attend this meeting there were present representatives of the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches, the Church of Christ, the Salvation Army .and the Roman Catholic Church.. Archbishop O'Shea and the Rev. E. R. Weeks, who were unavoidably absent, sent messages of cordial sympathy with • the aims of the meeting. Bishop Sprott and Archdeacon Johnson wrote apologising for absence. After full consideration of the situation it was unanimously resolved: : —"That this meeting of representatives of the churches of Wellington declare themselves in deepest sympathy with these organisations In; their hatred of war as the world's most tragic evil and greatest of all " hindrances to the establishment of . the kingdom of God. Their conviction is that the Church of Christ has no more urgent duty at this hour than to assume leadership of the people in a great crusade against war and for universal peace. Those present, however, realising that if the movement is to achieve success it must have behind it the authority of the Churches'as expressed by their constituted courts, resolve to bring the whole matter under the attention of those courts with a view to the formation if possible of a committee charged with the duty of securing the united action of all these churches in the interests of peace." A copy of this resolution wi|l be forwarded to the officials of the ' churches concerned.