THE CHURCH AND PEACE

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1934, Page 14 (Supplement)

THE CHURCH AND PEACE

GREAT BRITAIN’S PART. Speaking at ■ the* Church Assembly at Westminster the Bishop of Durham, Dr. Hendley Henson, said he had long looked with the greatest apprehension on the putting forward under the great name of the Church of England views which not only did not represent the views of the great majority of English churchmen, but sometimes only represented the views of organised minorities. "It needs no saying in any Christian assembly that we are all wholly convinced of the desirableness of peace, and the duty which rests upon all Christian citizens by every means in theii- power to pursue peaceful counsels and support peaceful policies,” he continued. “But here comes in the difficulty. The nations of the world are not on the same moral level and, until they are considerations which may seem overwhelming to. this section may seem comparatively worthless or unworthy to the consideration of another. At this moment the one hope of the world’s peace is that Great Britain should be able to speak effectively in the councils of the nations, and if following the mirage of pacifism, she disarms herself in the face of an armed world, she will neither speak selfrespectingly nor effectively.”