DESTROY EVIL

Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21590, 28 November 1941, Page 4

DESTROY EVIL

TASK FOR CHRISTIANS CAN THEY BE PACffISTSt WICKEDNESS OF HITLERISM (By Tclegxapn.— Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday A declaration that with the furies of evil holding so much sway in the world today he could not see how any Christian could logically take up a pacifist position was made by Commissioner J. Evan Smith, head of the Salvation Army in New Zealand, when speaking in Wellington yesterday ‘ I have my own special views, and I am not speaking for the Salvation Army, which as an organisation has given no pronouncement similar to that of other churches,” he added. “I cannot see, however, how any Christian man or woman can logically take the pacifist position. We take on ourselves a code of principles definitely in opposition to all evil and wrongdoing, and that means fighting Hitler and his unruly gang. “They are the vilest and most wicked men the world has ever known, and even’ man and woman is fully justified in carrying out his or her own principles and endeavouring to destroy the evil which is paramount in the world today.”