NON-PARTY GOVERNMENT
Sir. —Mr. Kingston agrees that the Social Security Act and the Housing Act should be outside the ambit of party politics. He even goes so far as to say that the Social Security Act conforms to the highest ideal of Christian friendship, but complains that it has completely lost its spiritual significance because the Act was brought in by a party Government, that is to say it has now no spiritual significance whatsoever. Mr. Kingston then interprets tolerance, and perhaps rightly, as the ever-to-be-desired Christian virtue; why not practise that virtue? Is he tolerant in his reasoning? The study of the history of the Inquisition, of the lives of Whitcliffe, •John Hus, Jerome, Tyndale, Luther, John Knox and Calvin, when the Church was a power in State politics, leaves little doubt that tolerance, that much desired Christian virtue, was conspicuous by its absence. There is an abundance of evidence all through history that religion and politics did not mix, have never mixed, and never can Jn i x - B. C. Chilwkjx.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24156, 24 December 1941, Page 4
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