STATE AUTHORITY
WARNING BY BISHOP. MODERN TENDENCY. (Per United Press Association.) Christchurch. August 12. A warning against the tendency which he claimed to exist even in New Zealand for the State to develop into a supreme authority over the minds and consciences of its members was given by Bishop West-Watson in a sermon preached in the Cathedral yesterday. The old statement “outside the Church there is no. salvation” was being replaced by a newer creed “outside the State there is no salvation,” said the Bishop. To-day men found-themselves in a new world where again, as in the days of Nero, the State was in various countries being enthroned as the final authority. The service was attended by Lord Galway and Lady Galway. “If a tide of national absolutism is destined to sweep over the world,” said the Bishop, “then the Church will have to count the cost which the martyrs paid, and decide once again for Caesar or Christ.”
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Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 6
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159STATE AUTHORITY Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 6
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