NEED FOR SPIRITUAL VALUES
“I have been told that there are thousands of children in this country who never attend Sunday School and that is an indictment of our country,” said Mr W. M. C. Denham, M.P., in responding to a toast at the jubilee banquet of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, South Invercargill last night. “A Government can put laws on the Statute Book and these laws can be reflected in the social and economic life of the people. A Government can abolish poverty and slums, but no Government can put that spirit into a man that will convert him from greed to unselfishness. The spiritual life of the nation must be preserved, and that is a task for the Presbyterian Church and for every other church. There is one thing that I am definitely old-fashioned about, and that is that the old Gospel truths are required to establish a democracv lit for the people. We cannot create a better environment without, the spiritual life.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24369, 25 February 1941, Page 4
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