WORLD PEACE CRUSADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23002, 1 April 1938, Page 3

WORLD PEACE CRUSADE

ACTIVITIES OF MOVEMENT Tho weekly meeting of the Crusade for Social Justice was held 011 Wednesday afternoon. The speakers were Mrs. M. Harvey and Mrs. M. O. Blamircs, conveners of tlie New Zealand Women's Crusade for World Peace, which was inaugurated in February of this year.

An extensive plan of activities was outlined by Mrs. Harvey, who said that the crusade was thy outcome of 1(5 years' study of the power ol' nonviolence, better known as love. If wars, which were the outcome of thoughts of hate, greed, fear and arrogance, were ever to be overcome, it was necessary to organise a vast army for peace, whose recruits would study and practise the principles of non-violence.

In the course of a brief address Mrs. Blamires said that the conveners desired to get at the basic root of the world's unrest, which went even deeper than the economic system. The root cause was fear and distrust, which would only be overcome completely when man understood that love, or selfgiving, came from an urge within and was the basic principle of tho universe. When he learned to work in harmony with this law of life he was allying himself with the cro and only power. God. This knowledge cast out fear and freed humanity from its age-long bondage to sickness, poverty and sin.