THE MORAL STANDARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 245, 15 October 1937, Page 8

THE MORAL STANDARD

ITS DECLING SERIOUS PREVALENCE OF ABORTION ARCHBISHOP’S COMMENT [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Oct. 14. “There is an urgent need for Christians to face up to the whole question of the lowering of the moral standard, and to take a definite stand on the truth of God’s moral law,” stated the Primate of New Zealand, Archbishop Averill, when referring, in his address to the Synod of the Auckland Diocese, to the findings of the Government report on the prevalence of abortion.

“Christians,” he said, “must be prepared to make their contribution to a truer and saner public opinion upon the Christian ideal of marriage and upon all sex relationships. The Government report on the prevalence of abortion, said the Archbishop, calls for more than condemnation of the murder of potential children. It demands a still more searching inquiry into the cause and effect, and a far more sympathetic attitude on the part of the Government to the religious training of the children of the land. It was undoubtedly the duty of the Church to face more courageously the whole question of the lowering of the moral standard.