REVIVAL OP PAGANISM
SUNDAY SPORT AND HIKING CONDEMNATION BY MINISTER [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday "Wo have in our time a singular reversion to paganism," said tho Re*\ Clarence Eaton, in an address to the North Canterbury District Methodist Synod. The opinion had been expressed that if missionaries returned from the old cult of ancient Greece, preaching thp doctrines of Apollo and Aphrodite, they would get as many converts in modern cities as were ever obtained in tho heathen world. Many to-day wcro frankly becoming pagan, ho continued. Young people, particularly, thoughtlessly yielded to tho allurements of Sunday sport and mystery hikes, and drifted along tides that carried them out of reach of all religious influences. Out of the new paganism was arisine the new_ morality, which wfis playing havoc with tho old moral standards and creating such problems for tho Church and the Stato as to fill the Christian and tho patriotic with profound misgivings.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23200, 21 November 1938, Page 12
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