"Something Bigger"

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 7, 1 September 1944, Page 2

"Something Bigger"

"We are too prone to think that all we can do is to pray that we may have victory, that the leaders may be guided to make wise plans, that the men have courage and . especially tfiat our dear ones may be spared and returned to us. Certainly we have to do all this,. but it is not all. There is something bigger," said Canon A. F. Hall, speaking recently m Gisborne. "We are m this mess together, whether we are Christians, halfChristians or non-Christians. We have all helped to make it and we must all try to^put it right. The second thing is that there is m us all a real foundation of solid goodness — a real desire to make the world a better place." ft was not to be expected that God would wave a fairy wand over the world if we prayed hard enough. Humanity made, the war and humanity had to put it right again. • We were apt -to think /that somebody other than ourselves would save the situation, but that could only be done 1 by every person accepting his bit of responsibility. Decency and respectability was not enough to save human nature from the disasters which threaten it to-day. TIME FOR GREATNESS "This is the time for greatness," the vicar went oni " and it is there m all of us. There are thousands of us who feel that we are not big enough for our job as it is, and we do not seem able to face the bigger problems which will confront us after Europe is set free. We need something which will set free m our lives a power that will let is be what we know we ought to be and which we are not. A personal quarrel cannot be healed unless we are prepared to own up to our share m it. God cannot do much for us. unless and until we stop trying to cover up, to go on living m a world of make-believe m which we will not let ourselves see and confess the truth about ouirselves. But once we have that God can do a lot." .