HUMANITY CRUCIFIED

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1 April 1945, Page 6

HUMANITY CRUCIFIED

"It ' was probably no exaggeration to assert that at no time, certainly not within the past 1700 years, had the powers of evil been more active and insolent than to-day. Truly it was a spectacle of humanity suffering upon a bitter cross," said the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, m an Easter address at Canterbury Cathedral. "Yet the remembrance of an infinitely darker Cross * made us have faith that now, as then, God was still reigning; that behind and through all He had a purpose. It might be given . to us at least to prepare the way for the coming of that purpose. It was for us to hold fast, as Christ did upon His Cross, to what we believed to be the will of God." "Surely," the Archbishop continued, "we could not bring ourselves to believe that it could be God's will that all those cruelties should go on unchecked, that that reign of brute force should prevail on the earth. If that were true, then could we doubt that it was m accordance with God's will that this nation and its allies should do their utmost at whatever costs to bring that evil sway of cruelty and force to an end? Then let us banish doubt and depression and fear, and with unflinching courage and unwavering resolve set ourselves to do the right as we see- it. But even if we could overthrow the powers of evil and win back the lands which they have ravaged, we might only be creating a desert and calling it peace. • ..'_ . :■•, 9l "We must set ourselves, when the gftound has thus been cleared, to .bojfei a new and better order* of dfttftwian life within our own and other .3tfttfo>ns. Let us. set ourselves to" carry 'itecaigih the task of liberating, the iraeßsld-s rom evil forces that are laid 3jßon3JK\in this grim war* but all the ,s£te*Jie Jfefijus be sustained by, the hope zstti&Xt iST^e resolve — that when • the we shall set ourselves JSB&h determination to try to dfy^ihe^fiffiundations of a triulynChristian civilisation." . ? .jigs)