THE WORLD’S ILLS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19834, 25 June 1934, Page 8

THE WORLD’S ILLS

MORE SPIRITUALITY NEEDED. In their farewell visit to South Canterbury Commissioner J. Cunningham, who has been leader of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, and Mrs Cunningham, accompanied by Colonel A. Scotney, Property Secretary for the Dominion, visited the Pioneer Memorial Church at Cave yesterday afternoon. In an address to a congregation gathered from all parts of South Canterbury, Commissioner Cunningham mentioned the problems that were confronting men all over the world. He referred to the tendency of people to disregard the obligations that go with Christian living, and suggested that an increase in piety and in attendance at places of worship might improve the conditions of people generally and the world at large. He thought that the troubles confronting men were no: altogether economic, but that there was attached to them a spiritual significance for there were events in Bible history and the history of the world which corresponded with present day conditions. He emphasised the importance of moral and spiritual uplift, by which the position would be arrested and New Zealand would emerge from its difficulties. He felt optimistic a.s to the Dominion’s future and was sure that with its climate and lands it would certainly support a tremendously increased population in time to come. In regard to his impending departure from New Zealand, the Commissioner said he had become very attached to the people and the country. The people were very kindly and he had found them always very generous in their support of the work of the Salvation Army