WAR'S FOUR CONSEQUENCES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 4

WAR'S FOUR CONSEQUENCES.

The Dean of Durham, speaking at Newcastle on " -Christendom and the War." said he thought organised Christianity had failed in the present crisis, though he believed that individual faith had hen strengthened*. From a artudy of history he thought there were four consequences likely to result from the wax apart from the political aswas, first, a Teligious revival following in the wake or the war, which would probably take the forni ox a considerable return to long discarded superstitions. Secondly, they would probably have to live through a period of acute social distress caused by the economic dislocation of the war, which would possibly bring civilisation to the extreme peril and misery of revolution. The third consequence would be a great loosening of the bands of society. The vast destruction of male life would upset the balance of the sexes, and throw a sinister, disturbing influence even on the fundamental moral relationship. In the fourth place, there must_ be a field open for many political theories of a most destructive character which had hitherto uot succeeded in obtaining audience outside small coteries of fanatics.