DENOUNCED BY BISHOP.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11683, 23 February 1931, Page 6

DENOUNCED BY BISHOP.

UNPRINCIPLED POLITICANS AUSTRALIA’S CURSE (Received 11.10 a.m.) United Press Assn —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY. This Day. In a Lenten pastoral delivered in the Bathurst Cathedral, Bishop Crotty denounced the repudiation proposals and hinted that the Church must soon enter definitely into politics to. save democracy- from destruction, threatening it. Preaching on the text ‘ Where there is no vision the people perish,” Bishop Crotty said that an English preacher recently l placed first in the last of modern deadly siiis the cult of politics divorced from principles; thereby putting his finger on the primary cause of our gathering chaos and increasing poison in Australian public life. When a private individual foreswore his debts or lawful obligations, it was a policy without principle and we were shocked-—or used to he—and when the nation or its chosen representatives made the same infamous proposal the same moral, poison was at work. The policy had slain principle. and the moral murder was callous complete. There was not far to seek for a. reason. Moral principles had been pulled up from the roots in God. Tlie acids of modernity had dissolved the ancients’ faith Principle was frankly disavowed in public life to-day, and thereby the doom of democracy was sealed. The community looked to the church for hold Christian non-party lead which could be given in the church’s vision clear and voice united.