PLAIN SPEAKING
“The time has come for plain speaking. We have heard much in the last year of the dangers of complacency in the face of the terrific military power of Germany. But hardly anyone has raised his voice in warning against the infinitely greater dangers of complacency in the face of the spiritual sickness of the whole world, of which the war in WStern Europe |is only the foteuS. My quarrel with the Church is the exact opposite of that of the average modern man. He will have nothing to do with the Church because it doesn’t fit in with his opinion as to what the Church should be—because it doesn’t go all out for Socialism or because it doesn’t go all out to fight Socialism, or because, in some obscure- way, it ‘let us down’ after the Great War. I quarrel with the Church because she has paid far too much deference to his opinions, as though they made one scrap of difference to the authority of God’s truth or the meaning of His purpose.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4523, 14 January 1942, Page 2
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177PLAIN SPEAKING Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4523, 14 January 1942, Page 2
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