THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
"STRONGER .THAN EVER"
"We may rest assured that if Our civilisation, built up years and years of progress, should fall, as it is in danger of"doing at this time of crisis, the Christian faith will survive the •catastrophe".-" Archbishop Julius e±preSsed- this. conviction in in Christchurch, when he dealt with the growth of Christianity from a, historical pbint of view. Through such disasters arid such world-shaking revolutions, had the Faith emerged in the past stronger and yet stronger, said the archbishop. When the church of the Jews was swept away and Jerusalem destroyed, still the faith of Christianity had gone forward with increased vigor arid strength; when the barbarians into Italy, aftd the great civilisation, of Rome was swept away, still" the faith was untouched, and Christ stood supreme in the conquest. ,And so';when the world enterfed upon the era of scientific discovery, peonle asked themselves whether the faith was to be "lost in the wave. *f materialism and spiritual unbelief that followed." ■■ •:■■ . ..'■"• .
-"Yet I believe that the Christian faith is stronger to-day than- ever it was;, stronger, than it was 50 years ■ago"' said the veteran prelate.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 6
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191THE CHRISTIAN FAITH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 6
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