SOCIAL TURMOIL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11370, 1 September 1908, Page 5

SOCIAL TURMOIL.

(Special to .Herald.) ' •! CHRISTOHURCH,. this day. I Preaching '""at'' Avonside, Christchurch, on Sunday evening, from the. text ; "Am I my brother's keeper?" his Lordship Bishop, Julius referred: to the evidence! .'of .widespread social trumoil throughout tlie world, and asked if anyone could cp^dentioitsly/say'.'ff^aib Cpur ciyilisaiiori j was a Christian -''civilisation ? Certainly there was; some Christianity in it,* buti our civilisation was not a certain thing' which the Almighty set forth- and desired to, have in the world.. They; saw that civilisation breaking down all round them, . and man vainly endeavoring to prop it up. Our present civilisation was doomed. Great changes must come. It might be in the mercy of God that those changes would! ibe brought about by -Clixistian people". .InJ'the face of the' rising of the great iriasses the present civilisation could not stand for many years, and only Ood knew what would take place. Many feared the change, but slowly, age by age, God: was working out His own purpose, and bringing His kingdom nearer. What. was their part in the changes coming to the world. It might not be that the Church would be able to lead or direct, the Church ought not to be lagging behind'." but shbuld |r be standing side by side with the men who were going on and on iri the world's history. <It was only by that means tliat the full benefits of the change could be realised.