CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 218, 13 September 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

PACIFISM. (To the Editor.) Though professing to folio* the f«m Jteps of tfie Man of Kaxareth, tha | Christian pacifist is one of the pugnacious fellows on earth. Hi® tancy frequently carries him her<M the bounds of good Christian behavior He will risk causing bloodshed in tu street that he may advise men not to shed it elsewhere: balked in this he «in tume so furiously about his right t, tree speech that one can onlv conrlw*. that his proper niche is on" the fn»» line. His conscience does not to kill his fellowmen, but is adaptabk .•nough to permit him to enjoy the free. ilom and all the privileges and luxstin *"on by war in the past, and for .•etention of which the most tremendnw .•onflict ever known is in the .vhile an appalled world watehe««S fraits tremblingly for the tip, aadtf .t falls our way, depeTid upon it, tu Christian pacifist will be at the hal of the queue for his share of the cafe? He must receive keen he is excused from serving the front line he should be given a job that win contribute something towards the' rxmt of that which he is now williaw in *ccept greedily for nothing.