FORCES OF EVIL
THE CHRISTIAN STANDPOINT PACIFIST VIEWS UNTENABLE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. The declaration that, with the furies of evil holding so much sway in the world' to-day, he could not see how any Christian could logically take up a pacifist position was made by Commissioner J. Evan Smith, head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, speaking in Wellington yesterday. " I have my own special views, and I am not speaking for the Salvation Army, which as an organisation has given no pronouncement similar to that of other churches," he added. "I cannot see, however, how any Christian, man or woman, can logically take a pacifist position. We take on ourselves a code of principles definitely in opposition to all evil and wrong-doing, and that means fighting Hitler and his unruly gang. They are the vilest and the most wicked men the world has ever known, and every man and woman is fully justified in carrying out his or her own principles and endeavouring to destroy the evil which is paramount in the world today."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24777, 29 November 1941, Page 8
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