THE CHURCHS’ PART.
To-day’s Problem Moral and Spiritual.
" I would not like to say that the churches are pulling their weight,” said Dr F. W. Norwood, of the City Temple, London, in an interview to-day. “ I don’t profess to be a politician or economist: I am a minister and an observer, but the more I consider things, the more I consider the problem at the bottom is moral and even spiritual. It would be a great thing if we could get a conception of the world as God’s world and the produce of it as God’s gift to the world. As it is now, we hate and fight over God’s gifts.” There was a sort of paralysis over the whole world, added Dr Norwood., Something had checked the world’s production and its power to minister to the needs of humanity. It might be that the world would have to find a new economic system or that the present one would have to be modified. The outlook everywhere was clouded with the fear of war.
Religion must not be allowed to be only worldly, he said. The body and soul were linked together, and the soul could not flourish if the body was starved or ill-treated.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 10
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