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THE CHURCHES AND WAR DR NORWOOD OUTSPOKEN LONDON, April 9. Urging that there was no alternative for the churches of the world than complete and final repudiation of war, the Rev. Dr F. W. Norwood, in his presidential address to the National Free Church Assembly, dramatically exclaimed: “It would be better that Christianity had a blood-red sunset with almost certain resurrection than that it should again posture before its Lord giving Him thanks for an exhausted end when it came and calling it peace.” If the militarists took the world into another shambles none would he more surprised than they at the effects of the upheaval. 9 “ Not for ever will men go like sheep to the slaughter at the behest of the blind,” he said. “They will ally themselves with the other sheep and make an inquisition of the false shepherds who led thorn astray.”
Dr Norwood has been minister of the City Temple since 1919, and was chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales from 1930 to 1931. He was born in Australia, and was minister of churches in Victoria and South Australia. He recently visited New Zealand and preached in Dunedin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22544, 11 April 1935, Page 10
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