CHRISTIANITY AND PACIFISM
ATTITUDE OF SALVATION ARMY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. A declaration that with the furies of evil holding so much sway in the world today he could not see how any Christian could logically take up a pacifist position was made by Commissioner J. Evan Smith, head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, speaking in Wellington yesterday. “I have my own special views and I am not speaking for the Salvation Army, which as an drganization has given no pronouncement similar to that of the other churches,” he added. “I cannot see, however, how any Christian man or woman can logically take a pacifist position. We take on ourselves a code of principles definitely in opposition to all evil and wrong-doing, and that means fighting Hitler and his unruly gang. They are the vilest and most wicked men the world has ever known, and every man and woman is fully justified in carrying out his or her own principles and endeavouring to destroy the evil which is paramount in the world today.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24605, 29 November 1941, Page 8
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