THE CHURCH
LIVES IN A HOSTILE WORLD. “The Church lives to-day in a hostile world. The attitude of the totalitarian States in Europe toward the Christian Church is fairly well understood by British people, but the attitude of Japan, the totalitarian State ‘par excellence’ of the Far East, is not so well known. The situation is the more grave in Japan in that the
attack is being directed upon an infant Church by a ruthless and determined foe. Another challenge to the position and vitality of the Christian Church comes from the persistent fact of war. There is apt to be a slow attrition of Christian ideals during war-time. The Church in the West has sufficient experience of this kind of spiritual damage to take the proper precautions against it or at least to be aware of J the danger in advance.”—Rev. A. M. Chirgwin, in his book “Under Fire.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4463, 13 August 1941, Page 6
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