RUSSIAN DOCTRINE OF WORK
ARCHBISHOP’S COMMENT (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, October 13. “It is a thousand pities that the extravagances and excesses of the Russian experiment have obscured from us their ideal of work as a contribution to the life of the community rather than as a means to the profit of the individual,” said Archbishop WestWatson, speaking of the Church’s relation to social planning and programmes in his address to the Anglican Synod service. “Many of us must have felt that this Russian doctrine was uncomfortably reminiscent of the spirit of the Gospel and yet perhaps regarded it as suspect because the idea seemed to be inseparable from the system. “We need the courage to cut ourselves loose from slavery to systems and to ask ourselves frankly not ‘ls this communism?’ or ‘ls this capitalism?’ but ‘ls this Christian?’ Otherwise what is the Church here for? The whole question of privilege, whether of birth or wealth, is one of the crucial points at issue in view of the hopes of a new order. Some of the privileged have regarded their privileges as implying responsibility and an opportunity for service to the community, but a far greater number have regarded them as personal property to be used for their own advantage or pleasure.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 4
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RUSSIAN DOCTRINE OF WORK
Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 4
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