CHURCH AND POLITICS
" Membership of a Christian Church should carry with it the guarantee of intelligent citizenship and live social sympathies. When it becomes recognised that, because a man is a member of a church he is, therefore, opposed to everything which militates against the highest interests of human personality without qualification, of class or nationality, there will be no necessity for conference and assemblies to pass sporadic resolutions protesting against this or that social evil. Those responsible for national and local government will need only to ascertain the number of definitely church people in their various constituencies in order to estimate the weight of influence for or against them, as the case may be; and the Church, without herself entering the sphere of politics, will become a vital factor in the development of our common life.'l—Mr T. W. Roff, J.P., in " The Pinch of Poverty."
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3354, 29 September 1931, Page 6
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146CHURCH AND POLITICS Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3354, 29 September 1931, Page 6
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