POWER AND WEALTH

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22476, 11 January 1943, Page 2

POWER AND WEALTH

Proper Use After The War

(8.0.W.) RUGBY, Jan. 8. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr William Temple) spoke at St.-Martins-in-the-Fields to-day on wealth and power. “When the war has ended in victory for the United Nations, our power, together with that of our Allies, will be immense,” said Dr Temple. “It will be of immense importance that we recognise it and accept the responsibility it involves, and that we dedicate the power to the loving purpose of God for all His children.” The Archbishop said that Britain had escaped, to a large extent, from the corruption which might have come from the power entrusted to her, not so much because she had dedicated that power, as that she had hardly noticed it. What Britain’s neighbours complained of was that, being possessed of so great a power, she had not thought how she should use it. He supposed that Britain’s record was less satisfactory in regard to wealth than power, for there had been a great deal of avarice. The British people had been learning surely that the evils which arose from corruption had their origin in power and wealth. Social and economic evils could never be solved on that level, but they might bo mitigated. They would never be cured except by a new sense of responsibility for power and wealth by the new direction given bv faith in Christ.