CHRISTIANS AND WAR
Pacifist Attitude Illogical
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. A declaration that with the furies of evil holding so much sway in the world to-day he could not see how any Christial could logically take up a pacifist position was made by Commissioner J. Evan Smith (head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand) speaking in Wellington yesterday. “I have my own special views and I am not speaking for the Salvation Army, which as an organisation has given no pronouncement similar to that of other Churches,” said the Commissioner. “I cannot see, however, how any Christian man or woman can logically take a pacifist position. We take on ourselves a code of principles definitely in opposition to all evil and wrongdoing and that means fighting Hitler and his unruly gang. They are the vilest, most wicked men the world has ever known and every man and woman is fully justified carrying out his or her own principles and endeavouring to destroy the evil which is paramount in the world to-day.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22133, 29 November 1941, Page 4
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