DESCRIBED AS “BOSH”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26779, 24 May 1948, Page 5

DESCRIBED AS “BOSH”

CRITICISM ON SUNDAY ENJOYMENT COMMENT BY ARCHDEACON N.Z.P.A.—Copyright LONDON, May 21. “ Bosh ” and “ muddle-headed thinking about the moral law,” was comment made by the Archdeacon of Lewes, the Ven. J. H. L. Morrell, on the criticism passed by the Free Church of Scotland on the visits by Princess Elizabeth to races, the theatre, and night clubs in Paris on a Sunday. The Archdeacon said: “ God’s laws are openly stamped underfoot to-day. and the ordinary run of Christian folk are extraordinarily apathetic about it. Yet, when two members of our Royal house go to France and formally do their duty to God by attending Divine service on God’s day, and on the second part of that day behave themselves naturally and simply as the people of that country normally behave, there is an outcry by Sabbatarians, who ask them to have respect of the Christian conscience of the nation.” “ New Forces Developed ” Addressing the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in Edinburgh, Sir Stafford Cripps said the people were becoming more materiallyminded and had developed new forces which enabled a comparatively few individuals to control and dominate whole nations, and one nation, by its material strength and the fear it struck into its neighbours, to conquer and enslave others. “ We are forced to regard with fear and trembling the very scientific achievements which ought to be welcome for their benefit to mankind, as, for example, the fission of the atom, lest in unscrupulous hands they be used for the destruction of our civilisation,” Sir Stafford said. “We must not stand aside professing our Christian faith while we allow every kind of unchristian action to be taken by persons and bodies in whose control and direction we share.”