A PREACHER’S BUSINESS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4043, 4 May 1938, Page 5

A PREACHER’S BUSINESS

THE CHRISTIAN NOTE. “It is not the preacher’s business to teach political wisdom, still less to dogmatise in any party spirit. But one may legitimately point to our nation’s history as one of steady progress and expansion of well-being. Our social system is a tree of agelong- growth, under which successive generations ol our people have found shelter and a settled home. It is not too much to say that in respect we are the envy of all nations. This venerable tree is continually undergoing a process of pruning and reshaping, in some cases wisely and with good results, in other cases perhaps unwisely and with bad results. But there it stands and grows, capable of still further development and growth, if the people are so minded. Surely it would bo madness to attempt to uproot it or in any way to lay violent hands upon it. It is a living organism which can be taken to pieces and put together again. It has not merely a local habitation but a spiritual unity, a life which may be poisoned, stunted, or destroyed. As Christian men we recognise with thankfulness that our political and social system has grown up and taken shape, by the labours and sacrifices of our forefathers, doubtless, but also under the benign providence of God. Therefore we say ‘God save the King’ because we reverence the institution of civil government and would thank God for all the manifold blessings it bestows upon us all.”— Dr G. H. Morrison.