PUNISH THE WAR GUILTY.
BISHOP OF LONDON SAYS IT IS BRITAIN'S DUTY. "We believe that God expects us to exact punishment, even as we ourselves should -expect to be punished .if we had . don© the same." So declared the Bishop of London, preaching in Westminster Abbey. "We' have to ask ourselves how, and to what extent, and on what people, •Ire we to exact punishment for the greatest, crimes committed' in the world for a thousand years. And; notice,.punishment is quite different^ from revenge. Why, should, not the criminal in . the dock 'be let off the moment he says he is sorry? Of course,, he is sorry, now, but; has all the same to be hanged for the murder, or spend those long '.years on Dartmoor for, the felony of which he now repjents. Because,,- without ptinishmeht, experience : shows- that men' will So . these . things again ; , because, if people are let.; ; off, the morale standard of ■ the world "goes down, because God is served as truly by a, just judge as by the minister of the Gospel, and upon the upholding of the majesty of the law the safety of all the innocent of the world dependfe."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14839, 17 February 1919, Page 9
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197PUNISH THE WAR GUILTY. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14839, 17 February 1919, Page 9
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