CLERGY AND THE LAW
BARRISTER'S CRITICISM [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Thursday "We find that an attack on the even flow of justice is being made, I am sorry to say, by certain ministers of religion. It is becoming only too evident that there are some religionists who are doing a real disservice both to their denominations and the State by fostering the spirit of antagonism to civil law," said Dr. 0. C. Mazengarb, a Wellington lawyer, addressing Justices of the peace at the association's luncheon to-day. There was no real conflict between divine and civil law, Dr. Mazengarb said. Conflict only arose when people sought to interpret the unrevealed law™of God in a way which conflicted with our duties as citizens of the world. Even when such conflict occurred the obvious course surely was to ask the Legislature to amend the law so as to bring it into harmony with the presumed will of God. Unless churchmen confined themselves to their true province they mteht easily bring about a situation winch they might live to regret. Any movement that white-anted the law was quite capable of white-anting the Church itself. That had already happened in Europe,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24134, 28 November 1941, Page 8
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